Tag: tutorial

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 […]

Browserify and ReactJS

Entering into using Browserify for the first time demands an answer to an important question — What is Browserify? Browserify simplifies dependencies management and usage of your Javascript application by utilizing commonJS import formats (require(‘modules’)) and bundling them with your app for deployment. It’s kind of funky to say, and yes several times I referenced […]

Request and Response Filters in Dropwizard

When constructing a Dropwizard application, there may be some pre-processing or post-processing you’d like to do on Resource methods. It’s fairly easy to add request and response filters in Dropwizard through the implementation of ContainerRequestFilter, ContainerResponseFilter, and ResourceFilterFactory, and adding them to the environment.