At this year’s Devoxx, Google’s Tim Bray gave a thought-provoking keynote which covered several areas but what stood out for me were his comments around writing applications for Android. In summary his message was “give software away and sell a service” and “make it social”. Giving software away and selling a service is a whole …
Tag Archive: Security
Jul 24
Java Enterprise Security
An essential non-functional requirement of any system is security. Different categories of users are allowed to perform different functions, and these requirements are satisfied by the two-pronged approach of authentication and authorisation. Authentication is pretty well covered by existing frameworks while authorisation is feasible but less elegant. How can this be improved? First, a quick …
