Monthly Archives: October 2008

Fixing NTLM authentication in Windows 2003

We had an application written in C# .Net, which used to communicate with Alfresco Enterprise Document/Content Management System. The application was using Alfresco’s NTLM component for authenticating users against their AD (Active Directory) user account. The application worked perfectly while we were testing it on Windows XP system. However, on Windows 2003 64 Bit system, [...]

Be careful while using ‘replaceAll’ and ‘replaceFirst’ methods of String class in Java

Most of the time, while trying to replace a substring in a given string, either all its occurrences or just the first one, java programmers tend to use ‘replaceAll’ and ‘replaceFirst’ methods provided by String class in Java. Java programmers like to use these methods to replace substrings as compared to ‘replace’ method of String [...]