Shocking television pictures of two Japanese hostages in murderous terrorists' hands brought the global threat of Islamic "jihadists" straight into Japanese living rooms. Now we all understand that it is not just "fire on the other side of the river" - Japan is not a far-off peaceful island safely isolated from all danger and trouble that goes on elsewhere. While this gruesome incident might be exceptional and could have been avoided simply by not travelling to the danger zone, more widespread threats and challenges are targeting Japan's security and wellbeing on multiple levels.
Certainly the terrorists timed their shock perfectly together with PM Abe's visit to Egypt, Israel and Palestine and promise of financial help for the Arabian people, who have suffered of the ISIS rampage. The money was, of course, offered for humanitarian purposes, to help in rebuilding homes and feed refugees, not "to kill our women and children and destroy homes" as the black-clad terrorist claimed. Actually, they are themselves taking care of that job pretty well according to the news reports.
As always in the pacifistic Japan, there are also those, who say that this drama was brought on Japan by Abe's "proactive" policies and if Japan would stay quiet at home off the harm's way, any terrorist threat or other aggression would pass by the peaceful islands. In this respect, the statement from EU's foreign policy chief to welcome Japan's higher profile in regional and global security and to wish that the "EU's key ally in the region" would take on even more responsibilities "to realize our shared vision of peaceful and prosperous future for the world" was well timed. She also called on speeding up the ongoing talks on security co-operation and free trade to bring the nations closer to each other. Could not agree more.
In the financial front, the unexpected move by Swiss National Bank to unshackle its currency was a less friendly move for Japan, a new challenge to Bank of Japan. For almost two years BOJ has been trying to convince consumers and companies to leave behind their deep-rooted deflationary mindset by unprecedented monetary easing, which has same time helped to bring the JPY value down to make export business more profitable. More than printing money, the credibility of any central bank's message is based on making all believe that it has tools and determination to follow its policy until the target has been reached. We have heard Mr. Kuroda repeatedly assuring that if the current measures don't prove enough, he has many more tricks in his pocket ready to use. Now SNB's sudden "volte face" has put a hole in Kuroda's credibility, in fact "undermined credibility of all central banks" as one expert put it.
ECB's own version of "quantitative easing", long waited and finally announced last week, was bigger than expected. The initial market response was positive as the stock prices rose not only in Europe, but around the world, even in Japan. Yet, the impact on FX rates was not as big as expected because the EUR had already taken steps down earlier. The move should help keep EUR down together with interest rates and that should give some life blood for an economic recovery in the Eurozone. Yet, as Mr.Draghi himself pointed out: "For growth to pick up, you need investment. For investment, you need confidence. And for confidence you need structural reforms." For the reforms, we know, you need action from political leaders. I hope that Frau Merkel, Monsieur Hollande, Herra Stubb and other European leaders took note of this as well as Abe-san as this is exactly what Mr.Kuroda has been saying all along about Japan. We look so much like each other these days, Japan and Europe.
Taking another look back at last year, the ISIS terror rampage was one of the events that painted a sad picture of world in confusion together with Ebola epidemic, Ukraine crisis and Russia's growing aggression. In the economic field, probably the biggest event of 2014 was the rapid fall of oil prices with totally unpredicted dive from USD 100 to close USD 50 in just a few months. It also brought along unexpected demise of its currency, that put off imports and foreign finance to Russia more effectively than all Western sanctions. As result, Russian's economy is now unravelling rapidly and its citizens are back to developing country level in comparison to other Europe. Yet, President Putin remains firmly in charge as popular as ever and shows no sign of change to his aggressive politics. Americans are baffled.
These global events seem to continue paint the picture for year 2015 - the first four unfortunately, the fifth, low oil prices, fortunately for most of us. For Japan, who imports now almost all of its energy needs with nuclear power still switched off, cheap oil and, hopefully coal and gas, too, is a lucky strike that should help drive the private consumption and economy this year more than the low yen. While not all believe projections that the GDP growth could reach to 1,5% level - IMF put its new estimate last week at 0,6% while BOJ lifted its own to 2,1% - most agree lower energy prices will help growth. On the other hand, BOJ has now accepted the prevalent view that it will not reach its 2% inflation target by March 2016. Even with lower inflation this year, it looks clear that the nominal GDP growth will be higher than "real" GDP for the first time in years, good for domestic corporate sales. Many also believe that overseas business will grow even more this year thanks to solid economic recovery in USA, where many Japanese companies have bigger sales than in China.
The spring wage hike talks, that are just starting, will show us whether the "virtuous circle", a corner stone in the Abenomics model, will take place this year better than last. With good profits in pocket from FY2014 and more projected for FY2015, big companies are expected to be more generous to their staff this time. Government and BOJ have both put strong pressure again on the Keidanren members to "play the game" after receiving boost to their business from the low yen orchestrated by the central bank. Yet, many sceptics say we are not living any more in the family-like "give-and-take" system of Japan Inc as today's corporate leaders are more receptive to the demands from their increasingly foreign shareholders than from domestic bureaucrats and politicians. They also point out that even if big multinationals would feel rich enough to grant bigger pay rises, they only employ some 25% of the work force and many of the countless SME's, who employ the other 75%, often in troubled regions outside of Tokyo, are actually worse off today with demand down and costs for energy, raw materials up. Hence they are in no mood to raise wages. Certainly, any investments into domestic facilities will not take place on government request basis, but only on cold business calculations. For most of us it is clear that without any prospect for sustainable demand, new factories in Japan make little sense and few will bring them back from overseas just because of low yen today.
With the declining population, the realistic long term growth potential for Japan is put at 0,5% and with no increase in immigration in sight, that can be only raised by structural reforms, the "third arrow" that has so far proved elusive. A long list of action plans have been clear long time for energy, labor, agriculture, free trade, "womenomics" etc, so can we finally expect some action from Team Abe when the parliament resumes its session now? The Aoyama View is: "Hold your breath".
On top of multiple challenges and tangling interests on each reform front, PM must tackle several political challenges despite his big win in the December elections. These include clearing the FY'15 budget that is running late to meet March 31 deadline because time taken off parliament work for the elections, dealing with serious antagonism against LDP and government policies in Okinawa, dealing with rising farmer revolt that has gained momentum from JA's power show in Saga prefecture and dealing with the ruling partner Komeito, who has grown louder in voice since the election. Finally, Abe and LDP must also start to prepare for - can you believe? – next election. Yes, local council elections around the country will take place in April and, of course, no LDP man should lose because Tokyo has given green light to local nuclear plant start or made a trade deal with US to allow rice imports. With all such tactical troubles ahead, it is hard to believe that any remarkable progress can be achieved in the reform front nor starting up NPP's or finalizing the TPP talks before the budget has been cleared and local elections carried out successfully. In reality, this means end April.
Year 2015 will also mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2, a historic event that has different meaning for different countries. In China it's about finally beating the invader together with USA and other Western allies, for Korea it's independence after 30 years of rule by Japan. For Japan, it marks the country's historic surrender, a defeat that led to construction of new, democratic and prosperous Japan, as well as the memory of all the human suffering during the last days of the war, vicious firebombing of big cities and, finally, two atomic bombs, the only ones ever. Japan's leader is expected to give another official speech about what all this means for today's Japan and how the country regrets its wartime aggression on its neighbors, but as it is this time Abe, a well-known nationalist, many are concerned that his apologies to the neighbors are not as clear as those from his many predecessors. Hence, while it's still long time to August 15, plentiful advice what he should say has started pouring in from many corners, not least from China and Korea.
For Japan, 2015 also marks 20th anniversary of two big catastrophes, the Great Hanshin Earthquake, that destroyed Kobe City with 6000 casualties, and Aum Shinrikyo's sarin attack in Tokyo subway, that left hundreds doomed in hospitals for rest of their lives as "human vegetables" and broke the long held local belief of Japan as safe country with gentle, peaceful people. The first anniversary was already noticed last week with solemn ceremonies, ironically with thousands in Tohoku still living in makeshift homes after even more destructive quake and tsunami in 2011. The poison gas attack anniversary coincides with start of court trial for the last culprit, who was caught after 18 years on fugitive run. The leader and 10 other main culprits were sentenced to death already years ago and now, following Japanese practice, wait in death row for their execution.
Happily there's more positive news in hand from outside politics and history. Adding to last column's long list of fresh data, Japan had last year less suicides – third year in row below 30,000 – and less yakuza – Kudokai, the No.1 organization in Kyushu, had only 870 registered members at end year, down from 1010 two years before. Also beer consumption was down for fifth year and if you consider that negative, you can take consolation in that Suntory's Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask 2013 was elected the world's best whisky. JR Tokai has started work on its Maglev train line to Nagoya and JR East is already testing its new shinkansen line to Kanazawa at Japan Sea side for official opening on March 14. About same time we will also see the first flight of MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet), Japan's first ever passenger jet plane. With fuel consumption promised to be 20% lower than competitors, the company seem to have already secured a good number of orders from both domestic and international buyers.
In the global car business, Toyota was again the world No.1 maker and expecting another record profit worth JPY 2,7 trillion or USD 23 billion, more than the entire turnover of any Finnish company. Its new fuel cell Mirai has already received four times more orders than expected as Tokyo City has joined the central government ordering the car to its workers and promising for private buyers its own JPY 1 million subsidy on top of government's JPY 2 million pledge. Honda will launch its own FCV this year, too, and Governor Masuzoe says the FCV technology will be one of the central features for Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
In the global money trail, Japan is just about to gain back from China its old place as the No.1 holder of US Treasury bonds. At the last count Japan had them for USD 1,24 trillion worth against China's USD 1,25 trillion. Meanwhile, Japan's net assets (assets minus liabilities) were calculated to be JPY 3050 trillion or USD 26 trillion even at today's inflated FX rate. Net foreign assets (Japanese foreign investments minus all foreign investment to Japan) were calculated at JPY 325 trillion or USD 2,8 trillion, ie about 10% of Japan's total net. A big new addition to the score is Itochu's USD 10 billion investment in Citic, China government's giant holding company, announced last week. This gives Itochu and its Thai partner a 20% stake in a wide array of big Chinese state companies from construction and transports to communications, electronics and finance. The target is to combine skills and powers together for infrastructure projects in Latin America and Africa. That a private Japanese company dares to put this big money in China and is allowed by China government to own such big stake in its public giants, is a healthy reminder of good sense and big business interests prevailing over petty political squabbling.
The final figure for inbound tourists to Japan reached to 13,4 million, 28% up and an all-time record. As reported earlier, the biggest flows came from Taiwan (2,8 million), Korea (2,7 million) and China (2,4 million), but other Asian nationalities like Philippines, Thais and Vietnamese also grew 45-70%. Attractive shopping thanks to cool products and lower yen as well as easier visa requirements were said to be behind the explosive growth. You could not avoid seeing tourists thronging in all kind of shops from Mitsukoshi to Matsumoto Kiyoshi, Yamada Denki, Uniqlo and Don Quijote. Calculations show their spending brought in over JPY 2 trillion or USD 18 billion already during Jan-September.
One result of the big Asian tourist surge was that Haneda airport, that hosts today both international and domestic traffic, probably passed Heathrow as world's No.3 busiest airport. The final figures from around the world are not yet in, but what is clear is that the big change in Haneda's figures is result of deregulation. Only a few years ago its great location within Tokyo metropolitan area was reserved for domestic flights only while international travelers were all forced to take the long ride to Narita in the neighboring prefecture.
As always, sport comments for last. Leaving behind bitter feeling of Japan soccer team's early exit from the Asian Cup already at quarter final stage after steadily inefficient performance over four matches and a penalty shoot-out that should have been avoided with more goals during the normal play that Japan dominated all through, let us focus on great performance by Grand Champion Hakuho, who made no mistake in sovereignly overpowering all his opponents on way to 33rd tournament win to send legendary Taiho's all-time record to history. There was new excitement in the air throughout this tournament with the old Kokugikan stadium sold out many nights first time in years. This puts off all talk that this traditional sport can retain its popularity only if there is a new Japanese champion.
The Mongolian is still young enough to continue rule the ring for long time, but there is already talk that, after retirement, he aims to become the first foreign stable master in another challenge to current rules and Japanese traditions. Until now, a foreign wrestler has had to adopt Japanese nationality in order to qualify to become "oyakata".
Japan's internationalization comes in step by step in many areas.
Japan: too many elections, too many politicians - Finland: Moomin power!
BOJ Ups Ante, Abe's Encounter in Beijing, Election in Tokyo?
Money Scandals with Ministers, Economy and Reforms Bogged Down - Abenomics is Facing Demise, Internal Political Commotion Gains Again.


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Q: Creating an email server on CentOS 6 I'm looking into creating my first email server on CentOS Linux. I know it can be a challenge when it comes to managing one, but I'm up for the challenge. If I have my domain name pointed directly to my email servers IP address, would I still have to add MX Records to my DNS? As far as i know, the email server should work with Apple mail that is built in to my computer that should connect with IMAP on the SMTP server port. I'm considering using IRedMail for my email server since it looks like it could make setup a lot easier for me. Any suggestions on what I should first know before creating my own email server would be appreciated!

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if i have my domain name pointed directly to my email servers IP Address would i still have to add MX Records to my DNS?

an MX record tells the internet what servers are responsible for handling incoming mail. so without an MX record, an email sent to your domain, would bounce back, as the remote email server would not know where to send it.  if you want to receive mail, you need an MX record.  (you also would want to implement SPF and domain keys to verify your domain email server as well).  just google this and read up on it.

the email server should work with Apple mail that is built in to my computer that should connect with IMAP on the SMTP server port.

IMAP and SMTP, in this instance, is about your email client.  IMAP is used by the client to retrieve mail from the server, and SMTP in this case is used by the client to send mail.  so dont confuse this with an IMAP service on the server, nor SMTP as used by the email server to forward on email, based on MX records (and SPF/DKIM for domain verification.
in short, you need to google these things and understand the difference, before deploying your email server.

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Herod Agrippa: Jewish king, ruled 37-44. Because of his good connections in Rome, he was the last to unite the Jewish territories.
The Jewish king Herod the Great had many sons and one of them was Aristobulus. However, the prince and the king were not on speaking terms; after two trials before the Roman emperor Augustus, Herod had his son executed in 7 BCE. Aristobulus' son Agrippa, named after Augustus' friend Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, was spared.
The boy was only three years old - he was born in 11 - and was sent to Rome, where he received a Roman education with the princes of the ruling dynasty, the Julio-Claudians. Among his companions were the later emperors Caligula and Claudius.
King Herod died in 4 BCE and was succeeded by three other sons: Herod Antipas was to rule Galilee and the east bank of the Jordan as a tetrarch; Philip was to be tetrarch of the Golan heights in the north-east; and Archelaus became the ethnarch ('national leader') of Samaria and Judaea.
He left the house of detention as a king. In 34, Agrippa's uncle Philip had died without sons. The emperor Tiberius had ordered his realms to be added to the province of Syria, but on March 16, 37, he died. Caligula became emperor and almost immediately restored the principality; as its king, he appointed his loyal supporter Herod Agrippa. He was the first to be called "king" since his grandfather, Herod the Great, who had died almost forty years earlier.
In July or August 38, Agrippa arrived in his kingdom. One of his first acts was directed against bandits who had taken over a part of the realm. Not much is known about this period of Agrippa's reign.
In 39, Agrippa's uncle Herod Antipas tried to "steal" Agrippa's royal title. Caligula intervened: Agrippa's uncle was exiled to Gaul and his realm, Galilee and Peraea, was given to Agrippa.
In January 41, Caligula (who was by now showing signs of complete insanity) and Herod Agrippa were in Rome. On the twenty-fourth, the emperor was murdered, and the Jewish king played a very important role during the accession of Claudius. The latter was grateful to Agrippa; Judaea and Samaria were added to Herod Agrippa's realm. He was now king of all the territories that had once been ruled by Herod the Great. Jerusalem was again the capital of Palestine as a whole and received new city walls. Agrippa's entry in the city of David and Herod was a triumph.
Like his uncles and grandfather, Agrippa was both a hellenistic and a Jewish ruler. His building program was essentially Greek; for example, he spent lavishly in Berytus, a "pagan" city. On the other hand, he did a lot for the temple in Jerusalem, repaired several buildings, and finished an aqueduct that had been ordered by Herod the Great and continued by Pontius Pilate. Some Jews will have appreciated how he took measures against a sect from Galilee, the Christians.
Now when Agrippa had reigned three years over all Judea, he came to the city Caesarea [...] There he exhibited shows in honor of the emperor [...] On the second day of the festival, Herod put on a garment made wholly of silver, and of a truly wonderful contexture, and came into the theater early in the morning; at which time the silver of his garment was illuminated by the fresh reflection of the sun's rays upon it. It shone out after a surprising manner, and was so resplendent as to spread a horror over those that looked intently upon him. At that moment, his flatterers cried out [...] that he was a god; and they added, "Be thou merciful to us; for although we have hitherto reverenced thee only as a man, yet shall we henceforth own thee as superior to mortal nature."
Upon this the king did neither rebuke them, nor reject their impious flattery. But as he presently afterward looked up, he saw an owl sitting on a certain rope over his head, and immediately understood that this bird was the messenger of ill tidings, as it had once been the messenger of good tidings to him; and he fell into the deepest sorrow. A severe pain also arose in his belly, and began in a most violent manner. He therefore looked upon his friends, and said, "I, whom you call a god, am commanded presently to depart this life; while Providence thus reproves the lying words you just now said to me; and I, who was by you called immortal, am immediately to be hurried away by death. But I am bound to accept of what Providence allots, as it pleases God; for we have by no means lived ill, but in a splendid and happy manner."
After some troubles the last king of the Jews was succeeded in some of his territories by his son Julius Marcus Agrippa. Agrippa's daughter Drusilla was married to Marcus Antonius Felix, the procurator of Judaea (52-58); Agrippa's daughter Berenice was the mistress of the future emperor Titus.
Modern literature: Nikos Kokkinos, The Herodian Dynasty: Origins, Role in Society and Eclipse (1998 Sheffield), pages 271-304.


In May 2015 I published the photos I took in 1980 from the viewing gallery at the top of the Shell Centre tower on the Southbank. The viewing gallery was closed for public viewing soon after opening, however I recently found a copy of a booklet titled Panorama of London that was part of the public visit to the gallery and provided fold out views, labelled with the sights to be seen, distances to towns surrounding London and heights of the hills on the horizon.
Walking around the viewing gallery with the booklet, visitors would have been able to pick out all the key features of the view before them. There is no date in the booklet to date publication, however I would estimate it to be from the mid to late 1960s. There is an introduction which provides some statistics on oil consumption with 1960 being the most up to date figure and 1975 being used as a date for expected future consumption.
The views also include Millbank Tower, built in 1963 so the booklet is not from the early 1960s.
The booklet starts with an introduction to the Shell Centre complex, informing the visitor that the viewing gallery is on the 25th floor of the Shell Centre tower, 317 feet above sea level. The tower block in total is 351 feet high, just 14 feet lower than the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral.
The booklet has four fold out views, corresponding to the view from each side of the tower. Each view consists of a transparent layer, labelled with the sights to be seen, which overlays a detailed drawing of the view.
So, lets commence a walk around the viewing gallery, starting with the view to the south-east and east from the rear of the tower. (Click on the pictures to open much larger versions).
In this view, Waterloo Station occupies much of the area immediately to the frount, however moving from the east we can see Southwark Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Guy's Hospital, the Old Vic Theatre. Elephant and Castle, and the Imperial War Museum.
On the horizon, Shooters Hill at 425 feet and a distance of 8.5 miles away, Knockholt Pound at 587 feet is 17.5 miles away and Tatsfield Gt. Farm at 784 feet is at 16.5 miles.
Moving to the side of the tower, we can look towards the north-east and the north. Here we can see the City of London. Bankside Power Station with a smoking chimney is on the south bank of the river. Cranes can still be seen along the south bank of the river between Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges. St. Paul's Cathedral is still the highest building in the City. The view moves to the north passing through Shoreditch, Islington, Holborn and to part of Bloomsbury.
On the horizon is Fox Hatch at 338 feet and 20 miles distant. Epping Forest is 14.5 miles away, and we can see Alexandra Palace on the horizon.
We now move to the part of the viewing gallery that is at the frount of the Shell Centre Tower, looking from the north-west to the west. On the north-western edge is Senate House of the University of London. We then come to the G.P.O. Tower (now the BT Tower), then Charing Cross Station and Hungerford Railway Bridge, Nelson's Column, the three parks of St. James's, Green and Hyde, then the Albert Hall and on the far west, the start of the museums of Kensington with the Victoria and Albert.
On the horizon is Elstree at 478 feet and 12 miles, Harrow Weald at 486 feet and 18 miles, and the Kensal Green Gasholder at 5 miles.
The final view in this Panorama of London is to the south-west and south, from the side of the Shell Centre tower. The Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey are across the river, and moving to the south, the chimneys of Battersea Power Station are smoking. We then come to Millbank Tower, Vauxhall Bridge, Lambeth Palace and the Kennington Oval.
On the horizon is Windsor Great Park at 20.5 miles, Oxshott at 257 feet and 15.5 miles, Coulsdon at 468 feet and 12.5 miles and finally Woldingham at 868 feet and 16.5 miles.
Then round towards the east with the rail tracks running through Waterloo East and onward towards London Bridge.
Now with the City coming into view with at the time the tallest tower in the City, the NatWest Tower, completed in 1980 and now known as Tower 42.
In the following view, Stamford Street is leading off towards the east. Kings Reach Tower is adjacent to Stamford Street, completed in 1972 and was the home of IPC Media, the publishing group behind a diverse range of publications from Loaded and NME to Country Life and Marie Claire. The tower has now been converted to apartments with several floors added, and renamed the South Bank Tower. I took photos from the top of this tower in the late 1990s.
At the junction between Waterloo Bridge, Stamford Street, Waterloo Road and York Road was this large roundabout, now the home of the BFI IMAX cinema.
Looking over towards the north-east and the towers of the Barbican come into view.
The tall building closest to the camera is the London Studios – ITV's main home in London. Built in the early 1970s as the home for London Weekend Television (seems strange now remembering the Friday evening switch over to LWT). The studios here had been hosting some of ITV's daytime output (now moved to the remaining studios at the old BBC Television Centre at White City) and large Saturday night shows. The site is about to be redeveloped with new offices for ITV, a set of smaller studios so that the daytime TV shows can return, and (you have probably guessed) a much taller residential tower which will be built on the site of the existing tower.
Moving along in my Panorama of London, this is the view over Waterloo Bridge.
The white building adjacent to the river is the old Shell-Mex House building and moving back, towards the left is Centre Point, at the top of Charing Cross Road.
Charing Cross Station and the BT Tower.
Slightly further to the left.
The Ministry of Defence building along the Embankment to the right.
And finally the Palace of Westminster. The London Eye would now be obscuring much of this view.
The skyline of London is rapidly changing. For Shell Centre, the office blocks surrounding the base of the tower have been demolished and new apartment blocks are being built around three sides of the original tower.
It would be interesting to see if I can get back up to the viewing gallery in two years time for a 40 year then and now set of photos, as the view will be very different to the Panorama of London and my 1980 photos.
This entry was posted in London Vistas and tagged Panorama of London, Shell Centre, Southbank on April 27, 2018 by admin.


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Q: OAuth2 retrieve client_id in CustomUserDetailsService I created a Spring Boot application configured to be my Authorization Server oauth2, have other applications Spring boot that are configured as Client oauth2.
In my server I implemented CustomUserDetailsService I would like in the method loadUserByUsername to retrieve the client_id of the project that is being authenticated.
I do not know if this is possible, but I would like to recover this to validate the client_id because I have several applications that use the same authorizer and by client_id I will check if the user has access to that application.
Does anyone know how to do this?
application.yml  client
security:
  basic:
    enabled: false
  oauth2:
    sso:
      loginPath: /login
    client:
      clientId: web_app
      clientSecret: secret
      accessTokenUri: https://localhost/uaa/oauth/token
      userAuthorizationUri: https://localhost/uaa/oauth/authorize

CustomUserDetailsService
public UserDetails loadUserByUsername(String username) throws UsernameNotFoundException {
        try {

            //I would like to recover the client_id in this location

            User domainUser = userRepository.findByUsername(username);

Have to validate any server because I have a single login for all applications:
Auth server authentication is done by user and password and application.
Imagine that you are logging into "https://accounts.google.com/" google checks user and password and displays your account with shortcuts to "PRODUCTS".
Now if you access "https://mail.google.com" google checks user and password and displays the gmail interface. In my case it can come from the URL https://application.domain.com, https://application2.domain.com, https://application3.domain.com or "https://accounts.domain.com.
All URLs it uses user and password, but it can have access to application1 or all or none.
I would like to do the server side, because it returns the access token only for applications that have permission (credit). If the user and password are correct it does not mean that the user has access to all the applications.

A: In order to access the client_id you need to Implement a different interface. The CustomUserDetailsService will only give you access to User object.
I don't the exact way to do this in Spring Boot but, in XML-based configuration you will have to do something as follow
public class CustomJdbcClientDetailsService implements
       ClientDetailsService, ClientRegistrationService {

       @Override
       public CustomClientDetails loadClientByClientId(String clientId)
              throws InvalidClientException {
           //Do something with clientId
       }
}

In short the method loadClientByClientId gives you access to the client id. There are other ways that you could intercept different Spring OAuth2 classes and access the client_id but, this is the cleanest and recommended approach.
You might also be able to access the client_id by adding a Filter to intercept the request and check the body.
You need to do some research on how to implement ClientDetailsService and ClientRegistrationService in Spring Boot. There gotta be a ton of tutorials about it.
It's best to start with Googling how to setup ClientDetailsServiceConfigurer with Spring Boot

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*For more on ClientDetailsServiceConfigurer See Spring OAuth Java Doc

*A good tutorial and this one

A:
final SavedRequest savedRequest = new HttpSessionRequestCache().getRequest(request, response);
if (null != savedRequest) {
    final String redirectUrl = savedRequest.getRedirectUrl();
    final MultiValueMap parameters = UriComponentsBuilder.fromUriString(redirectUrl).build().getQueryParams();
    if (parameters.containsKey("client_id")) {
        final String clientId = parameters.get("client_id").get(0);
    }
}


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THEIR ALGERIA
LINA SOUALEM
26 October 2021, 6 PM - 7:30 PM
After 62 years of living together, Aïcha and Mabrouk, Lina's grandparents, have decided to separate. Together, they came from Algeria to Thiers, a small medieval town in the middle of France, over 60 years ago. Side by side, they have experienced this chaotic immigrant life. For Lina, their separation is an opportunity to question their long journey of exile and their silence.
French/ Palestinian/ Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. After studying History and Political Science at La Sorbonne University, she started working in journalism and as a programmer in film festivals, looking to combine her interests in cinema and the study of contemporary Arab societies. Lina worked as a programmer for the International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires and the Palest'In & Out Festival in Paris, among others. In 2019, Lina's debut feature documentary Their Algeria, produced by AGAT Films & Cie received the Best Docinprogress award at the Doc Corner in Cannes Festival. Their Algeria was selected to premiere in Visions du Réel International Film Festival 2020. These past years, Lina acted in three feature films directed by Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass and Rayhana. She is currently developing her second feature documentary and works as an author and assistant director on fictions, documentaries and TV series.
2020 | 1h 12min
French and Arabic with French and English subtitles
Contact us at info@darelnimer or 01-367 016 to reserve your seat as places are very limited due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Metropolis Art Cinema

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