When reading emails from JAVA application, it returns content body in xhtml format. Following code can be used to convert xhtml tages to html.

org.jsoup.nodes.Document document = Jsoup.parseBodyFragment(xhtml);

document.outputSettings().escapeMode(Entities.EscapeMode.xhtml);

String str = document.body().html();

Authenticate AD user in JAVA

Use following JAVA applications to authenticate AD user in JAVA. More information can be found on following URL.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/390150/authenticating-against-active-directory-with-java-on-linux

import com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Iterator;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.AuthenticationException;
import javax.naming.NamingEnumeration;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import javax.naming.directory.Attribute;
import javax.naming.directory.Attributes;
import javax.naming.directory.DirContext;
import javax.naming.directory.SearchControls;
import javax.naming.directory.SearchResult;
import static javax.naming.directory.SearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE;

class App2 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String domainName;
        String serverName;

            domainName = "mobitel.int";
            serverName = "HO-AD-001";
        

        String username = "sujith";
        String password = "passwd";

        System.out
                .println("Authenticating " + username + "@" + domainName + " through " + serverName + "." + domainName);

        // bind by using the specified username/password
        Hashtable props = new Hashtable();
        String principalName = username + "@" + domainName;
        props.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, principalName);
        props.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, password);
        DirContext context;

        try {
            context = LdapCtxFactory.getLdapCtxInstance("ldap://" + serverName + "." + domainName + '/', props);
            System.out.println("Authentication succeeded!");

            // locate this user's record
            SearchControls controls = new SearchControls();
            controls.setSearchScope(SUBTREE_SCOPE);
            NamingEnumeration renum = context.search(toDC(domainName),
                    "(& (userPrincipalName=" + principalName + ")(objectClass=user))", controls);
            if (!renum.hasMore()) {
                System.out.println("Cannot locate user information for " + username);
                System.exit(1);
            }
            SearchResult result = renum.next();

            List groups = new ArrayList();
            Attribute memberOf = result.getAttributes().get("memberOf");
            if (memberOf != null) {// null if this user belongs to no group at all
                for (int i = 0; i < memberOf.size(); i++) {
                    Attributes atts = context.getAttributes(memberOf.get(i).toString(), new String[] { "CN" });
                    Attribute att = atts.get("CN");
                    groups.add(att.get().toString());
                }
            }

            context.close();

            System.out.println();
            System.out.println("User belongs to: ");
            Iterator ig = groups.iterator();
            while (ig.hasNext()) {
                System.out.println("   " + ig.next());
            }

        } catch (AuthenticationException a) {
            System.out.println("Authentication failed: " + a);
            System.exit(1);
        } catch (NamingException e) {
            System.out.println("Failed to bind to LDAP / get account information: " + e);
            System.exit(1);
        }
    }

    private static String toDC(String domainName) {
        StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
        for (String token : domainName.split("\\.")) {
            if (token.length() == 0)
                continue; // defensive check
            if (buf.length() > 0)
                buf.append(",");
            buf.append("DC=").append(token);
        }
        return buf.toString();
    }
}

Retrieve AD server details

Use following command to get AD server details in command prompt.

nslookup -type=srv _ldap._tcp.DOMAINNAME

Sub directory size in Linux/Solaris

Following command can be used to retrieve directory sizes in Linux. Below command returns 5 largest files in any sub directory in /apps/ directory.

find /apps/ -type f -ls | sort -k 7 -r -n | head -5

Informix 12.10 docker image (Rest Services)

You can find the docker image for "informix 12.10" database at following location. Informix 12.10 is rest enabled. That means CRUD opreations can be done using rest services without JDBC connectivity.

https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/informix-developer-database/

For demonstration purposes, you can use above docker image as a informix database.

You can use standard http requests to CRUD operations.

insert = POST

get = GET

update = PUT 

delete = DELETE etc

Sample requests

Sample Testing

database = test_db

table = test_tbl

table schema = id int(11), name varchar(20)

Insert request

http://192.168.111.132:27018/test_db/test_tbl

{

  "id":0,

  "name":"sujith"

}

Get request

http://192.168.111.132:27018/test_db/test_tbl

{

{

  "id":0,

  "name":"sujith"

},

{

  "id":1,

  "name":"delachithra"

}

}

Update request

http://192.168.111.132:27018/test_db/test_tbl/id/2

{

  "id":2,

  "name":"test update"

}

Delete request

http://192.168.111.132:27018/test_db/test_tbl/id/2

Retrieve application running on ports in windows

Use netstat command to get application list running on specific ports.

netstat -anob

Run the above command as administrator in command prompt.

Protect PDF using password in iText

When you need to protect PDF files using password, you can use following iText codes to encrypt PDF using passwords.

String ownerPasswd="owner";
String userPasswd="user";

PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("/apps/abc.pdf");
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream("/apps/abc_pw.pdf"));
stamper.setEncryption(userPasswd.getBytes(), ownerPasswd.getBytes(),
PdfWriter.ALLOW_PRINTING, PdfWriter.ENCRYPTION_AES_128 | PdfWriter.DO_NOT_ENCRYPT_METADATA);
stamper.close();
reader.close();

Library versions used,
itextpdf-5.5.10.jar
bcprov-ext-jdk14-1.47.jar

You can use preferred encryption algorithms. Refer documentations.