[Java] Done with Java for a while

Three days ago we released a pilot system based on Vignette Application Portal and it seems to hold up pretty well even though we have ripped out and replaced most of stuff that has to do with login, navigation and page/portlet display :)

The most complex part of the portal is the automatic creation of user accounts and silent login. With the help of the NTLM servlet filter from the jcifs package, the system extracts the user's Windows username and domain and is automatically logged into the portal. For first time users we extract required fields like first name, last name and e-mail address from our internal LDAP directory and then create the account in the portal. Would have been quite a bit easier if this was a system running on the Microsoft platform but thanks to jcifs it works pretty well. If anyone wants to know how it's done, just contact me.

This is my last day before vacation, and after the summer it looks like I'll be going back to work with .NET stuff again. After messing around with Notepad and loads of xml files and property files and open source packages from all over the Internet and Java apps that consume every bit of physical memory my laptop has, it sure feels good with vacation. Not that I don't like Notepad or open source, it's just that I'm getting older and like comfortable coding environments, like VS.NET ;)