Category Archives: Java

Understanding Forward Secrecy

Posted on 14th October 2015 by Andy Brodie

Two weeks ago I delivered a presentation for Worldpay on the subject of Forward Secrecy.  I volunteered to give this around 10 weeks ago as it was a subject that I’d seen mentioned several times whilst reading security-related web sites, … Continue reading →

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Creating portable file names in Java

Posted on 7th November 2014 by Andy Brodie

Today I needed some code in a Java application that would create a file with a valid file name, based on some user input. Of course, Java is a very portable language, so it was no good to only remove … Continue reading →

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Default behaviour of logging frameworks

Posted on 26th October 2014 by Andy Brodie

I’ve used logback in my latest project, xml2csv, and I think it’s great. Except for one tiny, but important detail. I’m writing a standalone command line utility, designed to be used by people are neither Java experts nor developers. I … Continue reading →

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Validating Schemas in JAXP

Posted on 19th September 2014 by Andy Brodie

I try to avoid moaning in blogs, personal or especially professional.  However, having been in .NET land for so long, coming back to Java and trying to do some XML processing has simply been a nightmare. So many magic strings, … Continue reading →

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