Tag: dropwizard

Automated Smoke Testing with SSL

Smoke testing is the verification of functionality in a live system, be that development, test or production. Many of us are familiar with deploying an application, and clicking around to be sure nothing is obviously broken. Is the application running? Am I connecting to the database correctly? But there are many more holes that form as an application grows, and integration testing becomes critical to catching them.

LDAP Authentication with Dropwizard

Authentication for your application may be crucial to its operation. Dropwizard provides a pretty clear description of different capabilities, but I thought I’d give a simple step-by-step implementation path. 1. Dependencies The good folks at yammer have provided this open source authenticator for Dropwizard specifically for LDAP. Add this to your pom: Please note, I’m […]