OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> We know about the Java metadata code but is there C++ metadata code? 

The Java metadata code in Shibboleth is virtually a straight port of the C++
code, which predates it by quite a while. The main difference is that it
ignores SP constructs, while the Java exposes both. The C++ code also
depends on inheritance from other classes in libshib that manage loading of
XML configuration files and detecting changes, but that code is also easy to
pull out. Of course it also depends on a plugin and factory abstraction as
well, which is in OpenSAML now.

Chad's design is a full API that will include creation of metadata as well
as consumption, and has a repository notion to represent caching of metadata
read from distributed locations. Details TBD though, I suppose.

-- Scott