Spartan Java

It’s really annoying to run something interactively on MS Windows when you know deep inside it should be an OS Service. Doing this on a *nix system is quite simple (most of the times you just need to write a short shell script), but on MS Windows it’s not so easy.
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If you ever tried to create a JAR file from Java code using JarOutputStream on a Windows platform you might have become as frustrated as me. I ran into two problems and since they took a nice part of my sleep time I’ve decided to share them and the solutions I found.
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It’s usually very nice, and sometimes a requirement, to validate usernames and passwords using existing credentials. And in most situations big frameworks or single sign-on systems are just damn overkill and complex.

If you need to check your users credentials via an existing Unix system (that supports PAM) or a Windows domain controller check out (continue reading…)