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Authenticate Jakarta EE apps with Google using OpenID Connect

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:02:00 +0200

In one of my pet projects, I’m writing a Jakarta EE web application where I want users to authenticate using Google. Easy, you would say, as Jakarta EE 10 includes Jakarta Security 3.0, which has support for OpenID Connect authentication. Took me a bit more time to figure out how to get it working, and to save you from having to do that, here’s what I found.

Devnexus 2023 live blog

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:49:15 +0200

This week, I’m attending the 19th edition of the Devnexus conference in Atlanta! In those 19 years, Devnexus has truly grown to being one of the biggest Java and JVM-related conference in Nothern America, and it’s always been a pleasure to be there. This year marks my fourth attendance as a speaker, and I’ll be doing two talks myself.

In this post, I’ll be live blogging about some of the sessions that I’ve joined. Enjoy!

Using HSQL in OpenLiberty

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 08:46:13 +0200

A quick note, this time. Recently, I wanted to do some hacking around on Jakarta EE and MicroProfile. I chose to work with the OpenLiberty runtime, as I previously had good experiences with it. My pet project also needs a database, so for starters, I chose HyperSQL Database (HSQL DB). Here’s how I set it up.