My Awesome Utility

A set of utilities created by Peter Hospodka, except for jquery and vkbeautify stuff whose files headers have their attributions.

Purpose

The utilities are focused on being used in a WAR, and therefore useful for testing setup of a server it is deployed on. All functions should work on either Weblogic or Jboss (though login has a catch and I have not actually deployed this to a Jboss env, but there is no reason it should not work). It comes with:

Usage

• Login - Tests login / logout capabilities of your security realm. Works in Weblogic and Jboss (Jboss may require the realm name my_awesome_realm until I get to work with that environment more; you can edit the jboss-web.xml to change it).

• Database - Test connectivity to a database with sql. Works with jndi lookup to test your server setup, and jdbc connection string for arbitrary db connections originating from the server.

• Format - Formats CSS, JSON, SQL (selects only), XML into pretty printed versions as best as able. Useful for generated json and hibernate debug sql.

• Ldap - Probably the most useful for general use. This will perform three commonly needed ldap queries.

  • Search for all information (minus groups) about a specific user.
  • Search for all users of a specific group.
  • Search for all groups that a specific user belongs to.

• Jms - Provides a mechanism to publish a JMS message to and consume a JMS message from a topic or queue. To perform both at the same time, two windows must be used and the consume (receive) option must be activated before the message is published (sent).

• Mail - Provides a mechanism to send an email from the server the WAR is deployed to for testing server to mail server connectivity.

• Web Service - A simple web service client that will send a soap message to an endpoint and display the response.

• Properties - Displays all the system properties available to the JVM and the application properties from the WAR's config.properties file. (configurable in web.xml)

• Whoami - Can check what your logged in subject looks like i.e. your username and roles (roles must be predefined in the properties and various .xmls)

Config

The config.properties control all the default text that appears in fields and can be customized. I haven't made that quite external or anything so you'd have to edit it by hand.

State

This is in a very early state. I wrote this a long time ago and pieced it together from scraps I had left and decided to put it out there. It, however, has not been tested in years and needs lots of improvement.

License

See LICENSE file. MPL 2.0.

Plans

• Remove JSP's. There is no excuse and will make certain improvements easier and gets rid of dependencies.
• Fix it so input is not cleared after submit. That is just annoying.
• Externalize config so it does not need to be packaged.
• Tests ಠ_ಠ
• Update Jms component to not require two windows.
• Server support needs work. Jboss and weblogic configs not ideal as they are. Support others like tomcat more effectively.
• Login component needs re-thought.
• Ldap component is too naive and hard coded on paths.
• Java features cleanup. A lot has changed since I first wrote this.
• Fix up maven. Trimmed down a sample from a giant project. May have more in there than I need.
• Switch to logback config.