FUN: Now someone wants 10 years .NET experience

We all heard of unreasonalbe job postings. Here is the latest thats posted to one of the Yahoo Groups:

This Requirement is for a good MNC Based in XXXX. They are looking for following people. Please send your Latest Profile with your details: 1) C,C++ 10+ yrs exp 2) .NET Tech 10+ Yrs 3) Peoplesoft Functional HRMS with Exp in Variable Compensation 4) Oracle Applications Technical Pls send your Latest Resume: 1. Latest Resume 2. Location Preferences 3. Current Salary 4. Expecting Salary 5. Joining time 6. Contact nos. and availability timings 7. if any Short Term / Contract assignments - YES / NO : May I Request U To XXXXXXX

J2SE: 1.4.2 Beta released

J2SE 1.4.2 beta seems to be released. Change Notes and Release Notes are available. Some screen shots for XP L&F are available here

SUN: Free J2EE classes starts again on April 16th

Sun's J2EE Programming (with Passion!) Course starts again on April 16th. This is very much like a regular college course in which the students have to do weekly homework and final project after studying the presenation material but it is free and can be taken online.

If you are an entry level J2EE programmer, this is a must course.

Eclipse: Mirror for faster downloads here

With Taiwan mirror for eclipse download seems pretty fast. I could download 2.1 in less than 30 mins.

Security: A Security Shorthand from SUN

The Future of Web Services Security from sun gave dictionary of security aspects. Here is simplified form of the same:

Term	Protective Goals	Matching Security Technologies
Confidentiality	Can prying eyes see it?	Key-based digital encryption and decryption.
Authentication	Are you who you say you are?	Username/password, key-based digital signing and signature verification, challenge-response, biometrics, smart cards, etc.
Trust	Have I agreed to work with you?	Key-based digital signing and signature verification.
Non-repudiation	Can you claim that you didn't send or receive it even if you did?	Key-based digital signing and signature verification, message reliability.
Integrity	Was it altered before I got it?	Message Digest, itself authenticated with a digital signature.
Authorization	Are you allowed to have it?	Application of policy, access control, digital rights management.
Auditing	Can I prove what happened?	Various forms of logging, themselves secured to avoid tampering.

Weblogic:8.1 Supports getting vendor JDBC connection

Never understood why BEA wouldn't support this feature. This is a critical feature for many applications like the one's that use Oracle Spatial Extensions. Here is the docs for the same.

Weblogic: 6.1SP4 Supports Console Extensions

Never seen any docs related to this but weblogic6.1sp4 supports console extensions. Follow the instructions as per 7.0 docs. But here is the trick though, your java class that extends weblogic.management.console.extensibility.Extension should not implement weblogic.management.console.extensibility.NavTreeExtension. Note that NavTreeExtension exists in 7.0 but not in 6.1sp4.