Configure LDAP with Websphere Lombardi Edition

Out of the box, WebSphere Lombardi Edition installation comes configured with a single federated internal repository that provides default groups and users for Lombardi environment. You can create new users and groups in the internal repository and use the users and roles as part of the business process definition. Alternately, many organizations uses LDAP for users and group management and you would want to source the users and groups…

Developing php applications using web matrix

WebMatrix is a free web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for web site development. WebMatrix provides an integrated environment for building, testing, and deploying web sites. This integrated environment includes an embedded IIS web server, database, and programming template that lets you get started with web site development,  which includes PHP and .NET applications. If you use any of the widely used blog and content…

Spring on Cloud

Recently heard the news about the launch of VMWare Spring Source Cloud Foundry: an open source “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) which allows easy deployment of applications written using Spring, Rails and other modern frameworks. The open source cloud deployment seems interesting, where you could eventually host spring based applications over cloud. Cloud Foundry is available under the widely adopted Apache License, version 2.0.

The new…

Resolving URL file access is disabled in the server configuration

I was trying out the simplexml_load_file function for parsing RSS feeds on my hosting server using the following code-

$rss =  simplexml_load_file(‘http://naveenbalani.com/index.php/feed/’);

and got the following exception on my hosting server -

“URL file access is disabled in the server configuration”

After googling through the documentation, I noticed that the simple_xml_load uses furl_open function to get files remotely. This function, due to security issues was not supported on my hosting server (and probably…

Parsing XML data in PHP

If you are planning to deal with XML data in PHP , for instance parsing an RSS feed or pattern matching (finding images or elements in an XHTML) , than probably you need an XML library which extracts the data for you.

The SimpleXML extension provides a very intuitive API to convert XML to an object and traverse elements easily.The only disadvantage is that it loads entire document in…

Invoke webservices from Android

This is ongoing blog on Getting Started with Android. In earlier blog, I provided an architecture overview of android application, followed by setting up the development environment for Android and creating and running a simple application.

In this blog, I would describe how to invoke web services (soap based services) via Android. In my next blog, I would follow it up with how to invoke REST based services….