OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Over the holidays a fair amount of work was done on the OpenSAML 2, Java 
Edition, library so I wanted to give everyone an update.

 - The largest change was the refactoring of the basic XML processing 
interfaces and implementations.  There is a now a set of code, located 
in org.opensaml.xml, that can be used to construct a library like 
OpenSAML for any XML specification.  That is to say there is a framework 
for composing and decomposing XML documents to and from Java objects. 
This code is NOT the same as an XML binding library such as XMLBeans, 
JAXB or the like, instead it is lower level.  An analogy might be that 
this code is to JAXB what JDBC is to Hibernate or EJB.  Our current 
thinking is that we will release this code as a separate library for 
people to use if they want.

 - Enhanced functionality for the base classes of SAMLObjects and their 
test cases.  Lots of helper methods.

 - Test cases for almost all the code that's currently in Subversion

 - Updated time line and documentation to reflect changes made to API 
during the refactoring process.  The refactoring wasn't planned for so 
it moved some of our milestones in the time line back, however because 
of the refactoring, a good chunk of the code we would have had to write 
fell away, so the overall release date didn't change.

As always, if anyone has any questions please let me know.
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