In a lot of network setups users are forced to use some kind of gateway server or bastion host to connect to their target server via SSH. Being able to connect to the target server with one click via putty saved me a lot of time.
In our build process we try to keep the resulting artifacts (e.g. ear or war files) environment independent so that we can easily deploy the same artifact in different environments. One problem I stumbled across recently, was the need to configure our web application to set the secure flag on the session cookie. This is done in the packaged web.xml. This post will show an alternative solution for this problem by using the jboss specific jboss-web.
