OpenSAML user discussion

["Helen (Nell) Rehn" <>]

Well, since my thesis must be deposited Dec. 13th, I don't really have a 
couple of months to wait for things to stabilize.

I will build my classes according to the current design and I will let you 
know when I have those working and test cases for them.

In addition, I was wondering if any thought had been given to having 
OpenSAML use a real SOAP engine for its SOAP bindings (i.e. Apache Axis), 
rather than doing all its own XML processing?

Thanks,
Nell

At 03:46 PM 10/4/2002 -0400, Scott Cantor wrote:
> > As part of master's project, it looks like I will need to implement
> > AuthorizationDecisionQuery and AuthorizationDecisionStatement
> > in Java if I am going to be using OpenSAML.  I was wondering if
> there's
> > anything I can do to maximize the chances of these classes being
> accepted
> > back into the OpenSAML distribution.
>
> Sure, you could help define what the guidelines are! ;-)
>
> Seriously, it's a good question. Since I don't really own the copyright
> (Internet2 does), I can't rightly claim to control the criteria, but I
> imagine I'll be a part of that decision process.
>
> At this point, we don't have a large code base, coding or style
> guidelines (eg. I tend to violate every Java and C guideline, as a C++
> programmer who dislikes K&R C), etc.
>
> Clearly, the main issue with the core classes is the basic design. Right
> now, you'd want to copy the basic design and function of what's there,
> and simply fill in the missing pieces.
>
> That said, I don't think the basic design is done. There's a lot of work
> on the C++ side that's going to get ported back to Java. I have requests
> from vendors to hide some of the dependencies on signing with the Apache
> security code. And we're talking about possibly reworking the main body
> of code to use interfaces and build a parallel set of classes for the
> implementation, like DOM or lots of other stuff.
>
> Lastly, there's the wildcard of JSR 155
> (http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/155.jsp)
>
> I'd look for things to stablize in the next couple of months, excepting
> the standardization issue if that JSR becomes relevant.
>
> -- Scott

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Helen (Nell) Rehn               graduate research assistant
University of Illinois / NCSA   phone: (773) 425-2558
605 E. Springfield              e-mail: 

Champaign, IL 61820             http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~rehn


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