Strange Brew

Here is a sample Apache conf file that demonstrates the following Reverse proxy to a backend Java application (/ui is proxied to an app running on port 9010). LDAP authentication against a local LDAP server running on port 1389 The REMOTE_USER header is set to the authenticated ldap uid, and passed to the back end Java application.   My purpose here is to have a super light weight proxy that simulates having a "real" Access Management system in front of the application.  This is strictly for development. The idea is to move authentication out of the application. In production the application is going to be front ended by a PEP (an Oracle OAM Webgate, for example) that will set the REMOTE_USER header based on the users established SSO session. Here is the config file

The current Repository Creation Utility - RCU (11.1.1.5)  does not run successfully on Oracle Enterprise Linux OEL 6.1 - or at least it didn't on my VirtualBox image.  You will get an error about a missing library (libXext). You can get around this problem by editing the bin/rcu script and changing the JRE home directory to use the  native JRE from the O/S instead of the one bundled with the RCU.  For example - /usr/java/latest/jre. Please note that OEL 6.1 is not yet certified for FMW and the above is  *NOT SUPPORTED* . Use at your own risk.

A script to startup up oracle on boot. Put this in your /etc/init.d directory, and run chkconfig --add oracle

I'm a Javascript/JQuery newbie and one of the first puzzles that I ran into is callback functions and the value of "this". You set up a callback handler like so: jQuery.getJSON('/address/list', this.myCallback); And you expect that when your callback is invoked that "this" will be set to the value of the enclosing object: myCallback: function(json) {     this.doSomething(); // doesnt work! }, doSomething: function() // ... What you (not so quickly) discover is that JQuery sets the value of "this" to the DOM object (or the element within the DOM that triggered the callback).  It is *not* set to the object that holds your callback function! The solution is to use JQuery's proxy wrapper: jQuery.getJSON('/address/list', JQuery.proxy(this.myCallback,this)); You will want to read   this  and this  for a full explanation. BTW - none of these results floated to the top of the Google machine. If you are newbie, y...

Since January of 2011 (11.1.1.4), OIF (Oracle Identity Federation) supports OpenID 2.0 both as a Relying Party and as an OpenID provider. During a recent POC we demonstrated OpenID configured as a RP with Google as the OpenID Provider. What follows is a bit of a cook book on configuring OIF to work with Google as the IdP. OIF is administered through Enterprise Manager. Log on the OIF EM console (for example, http://demo.com:7411/em). Step 1: Enable OpenID RP support Navigate to OIF Administration -> Service provider Select OpenId 2.0 tab Select Map User via Federated Identity Unselect Map user via attribute query Expand Protocol Settings Click Enable OpenID 2.0 support Click APPLY to save your changes NOTE: I found that you can not unselect "Map User via Attribute Query". As long as you override this in the IDP specific settings, this should not matter (i.e. I think this is the default if you dont set it in the IDP) Step 2: Add Goog...