JSON is a standard format for sharing objects and data within an application. When working in Java, there is no built-in support for JSON processing. There are, however, several widely-used libraries and options to choose from. In this article, we will focus on Jackson, which is one of the most popular.

AutoMapper is an object-to-object mapping system used by many of our customers. It aims to simplify and organize code responsible for sharing instance values from an object of one type to an object of a different type.

Inventa, a Wireless Technology Company, Protects their Android Application with DashO

The Beginnings of Inventa

Having worked in the wireless mobile technology domain in the US, Anand Virani, became intrigued by the growing tech and wireless trends and wanted to explore the field more for himself. He noticed a boom in the Internet of Things (IoT) and that smartphones were becoming more central to how people interacted with each other at home, in the office, and in public places. What if there was a way phones could connect with each other without the need for Internet or cloud access? Smartphones were the future and Virani was determined to make a profitable business model based on this new trend.

Surgical Theater Protects their Medical Applications with Dotfuscator

How It All Started

How is flying a fighter plane similar to performing neurosurgery? They have more in common than you’d think. In 2005, Monty Avisar and Alon Geri, two Israeli fighter pilots were assigned to work with Lockheed Martin to build a $50 million F-16 Flight Simulator program for the Israeli Air Force to improve hand-eye coordination skills for their pilots during combat. Avisar took on the role of project manager and Geri served as senior engineer; the project was a success.

Four years later in 2009, the two finished their military service in Israel and moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Their experience working in virtual reality applications inspired them to wonder where this technology could also be applied. With several connections to surgeons, the two came to understand the ins and outs of operation procedures; in a similar way, surgeons were also working on a battlefield. What if surgeons could also train like fighter pilots and preview their surgical procedure, much like a fighter pilot could pre-fly their mission? The surgeons could pre-plan the operation from every angle and every approach to increase their situational awareness. And a year later, Surgical Theater was born.

GlobalMed Finds Success by Switching to JSDefender

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House after his 3-day stay at Walter Reed National Medical Center, staying connected to his physicians was very important. The White House IT staff made sure telemedicine services were securely set-up, and the team at GlobalMed was ready to confirm "all systems a go".

GlobalMed powers the world’s largest, most advanced virtual health platform that supports virtual consults between doctors and patients. With over 25 million telehealth sessions delivered in 60 countries, GlobalMed is a world leader in telemedicine and virtual monitoring. In addition to working with hospitals and medical practices to provide white-label technology solutions, GlobalMed also provides virtual health products to the US Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, and The White House Medical Unit.

In order to work with Federal and State entities, GlobalMed had to follow a variety of security requirements as identified by Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). Applying obfuscation and hardening to their applications was already a part of their security strategy… so why was GlobalMed not happy with their existing provider? Why did the team at GlobalMed contact PreEmptive for a “second opinion” for their protection solution?

Maven is perhaps the most widely-used project management tool for Java. Based on the Project Object Model (POM), it is used not only for compilation of source code, but also dependency management, documentation, running tests, packaging, deployment, and more. We are frequently asked if we have a Maven plugin for running DashO. Though we do not offer a specific Maven plugin, adding DashO to your Maven-based project is surprisingly easy by leveraging Ant.

In an already digital world, the Covid-19 pandemic forced society and businesses to adopt additional modes of technology and press on for more advanced application development. Business’ focus shifted to increased remote work collaboration, streamlined contact tracing work, and enhanced consumer e-commerce connections. With little knowledge on how much longer social distancing measures will be in place, more on-demand application development options are needed to successfully maintain workplace functionality.

Gabriel Torok, Founder and CEO of PreEmptive, recently authored an article as part of the Forbes Technology Council. In it, he describes four application trends that help predict emerging expectations for the future of enterprise.

Customers occasionally ask us about adding DashO, Dotfuscator, or JSDefender to their Docker-based build processes. We do not provide pre-built Docker containers for our products, but it is relatively straightforward to create your own containers with the distributions we do provide. Historically, setting up licensing for these containers could be a challenge, but with the recent addition of Floating license support to DashO, Dotfuscator, and JSDefender, even the licensing part is straightforward.

This blog provides example Dockerfiles for each product, as a starting point for building your own containers. You will need to replace {x.y[.z]} with the appropriate major.minor[.patch] version.