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Adrian Cox offers custom software development and consultancy through Humboldt Solutions Ltd.
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The Mystery of ProxyPassReverse

The mod_proxy_ajp module for Apache has many advantages over mod_jk for connecting a Tomcat server to an Apache front. For me, the crucial advantage was the ProxyPassReverseCookiePath directive, which allows me to map the session cookies of a Tomcat web application (other than the root application) into the root of a virtual host. Unfortunately, many [...]

Wrapping a Native Library with Maven

I recently converted a large project to build with Maven. The project contained both C++ and Java code, and produced a web application, a standalone server application, plus a number of small command line tools. The project used a large number of open-source Java libraries, and Maven tamed these easily. The native C++ [...]