OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Forgot to mention one other thing.  The current state of the code 
represents what we believe to be a fairly mature design and as such work 
will be starting shortly on the C++ library following the design of the 
Java code.

Chad La Joie wrote:
> 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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