This blog is about making software even simpler - hence the name Simplericity.

You can reach me at eirik at simplericity.com

• Exploring the Glassfish commit history with SVNSearch
  I recently added the Glassfish Subversion repository to SVNSearch.org. Paul Sterk, the community manager for Glassfish, asked if I could provide some background on SVNSearch.org and the benefits of having Glassfish indexed there. So, here are some ways ...
• Yes, cross-platform Single Sign-On for Java Webapps is possible.
  A customer participating in the SVNSearch beta round asked me about Single Sign-On solutions for SVNSearch. SSO has become something of holy grail in the Enterprise. Everyone wants it but few seem to really achieve it. The Wikipedia article for Single ...
• Implementing decorator templates with Apache Velocity
  A couple of years ago I started replacing JSPs with Apache Velocity for generating HTML in my web applications. The simplicity and speed of Velocity was very appealing to me compared to the complex beast that JSP is. Compiling JSP to Java, then to byte ...

• Re: Yes, cross-platform Single Sign-On for Java Webapps is possible.
  Hello Eric, I am looking for spnego java library and I wonder to know if you release your code as open source? Best Regards Michal
• Re: Yes, cross-platform Single Sign-On for Java Webapps is possible.
  Can you share your code?
• Re: Implementing decorator templates with Apache Velocity
  I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to with "Velcoity's templates". Perhaps you could share a bit more details about how you go about creating layouts with Velocity?