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In our application we decided to split the mongo db driver to improve performance of a certain module. This is how it was done: "mongo" is the default ID of a mongo driver. So we need to set the ID to a different value for the second declaration. It worked like a charm.

Definition Mongo db is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. Advantages Here are some of the advantages of MongoDB for building web applications: A document-based data model. The basic unit of storage is analogous to JSON, Python dictionaries, Ruby hashes, etc. This is a rich data structure capable of holding arrays and other documents. This means you can often represent in a single entity a construct what would require several tables to properly represent in a relational db. Deep query-ability. MongoDB supports dynamic queries on documents using a document-based query language that's nearly as powerful as SQL. No schema migrations. Since MongoDB is schema-free, your code defines your schema. Better performance. There are many reasons for this. One is that, since the document model frequently doesn't need joins, MongoDB doesn't support them; another is that MongoDB uses memory-mapped files and a different consistenc...

I wasted 2 days over this Cardspace issue . Which require us to " strip whitespace from xml signatures - a need of MicroSoft's CardSpace identity selector ". See the exact steps to enable this patch here . You would also need JCE security policy to be upgraded. Here are the installation instruction:

I hate copying the war file manually to the tomcat dir. Such a waste of time. So, decided to get this script handy. Sample maven script for auto deploying into deployment dir:                                

The configurations required in the Application context file is as below:

Adding a group filter in LDAP import can be done as mentioned in this article . However I had to do a minor change. I had to use (name = myLDAPGroupName)            instead of (objectClass=Group) for the search filter under Setting->User->Edit LDAP config->Group section.

Struts is an application framework that allows the construction of dynamic Web applications using the MVC design pattern. The Controller layer is implemented by Servlets.  The view is implemented using JSPs.  The Model layer is typically implemented using JavaBeans or Enterprise JavaBeans. Struts MVC Architecture