At Avisi we maintain an application platform where the platform (VM’s, databases, LDAP, etc.) is maintained by a third party. Modernizing our deployment processes, we obtained ownership of the platform’s configuration. This brought up a practical issue: we don’t know the passwords used by the applications to connect to the services provided by the platform (database, LDAP). In fact, we aren’t allowed to know these passwords since that would break the SLA with the platform provider.
JDBC datasource password encryption in JBoss AS7
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We have a rather traditional application that can be downloaded and installed ‘behind the firewall’. The next logical step for this application would be a multi-tenant cloud offering with a signup process, monthly billing, etc, etc… Or is there an alternative?
The software business is certainly a complex one. No two companies do exactly the same thing, work the same way or use the same technologies or methods.
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