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Multi Factor Security Review

Introduction
One of the newer terms coined in today’s business world is “multi factor” security. With all of the new security threats appearing daily, having the ability to authenticate a user of a networked system is essential to the success of any business. With multi factor security we can close the gap of doubt when determining [...]

Compiling an Apache Maven Project

Compiling a Maven project was pretty darn easy. You simply run the command mvn compile. This command tells maven to compile the source code into classes. The classes end up in the target/classes dir and target/test-classes dir.
Running mvn package will build a jar of the project. The version used in the jar name is contained [...]

Creating an Apache Maven Project

Well, I am finally taking the plunge into Apache Maven. I have found that managing dependencies is becoming unbearable and Maven is being used by several open source project that I use so… Here I go, one step at a time.
My first question was obvious: How do I create a new Maven project?
After a few [...]