OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

Chad La Joie wrote on 2009-07-07:
> The problem is that SAML 2 authentication is quite complex.  You have to
> deal with plain old authentication, forced authentication, passive
> authentication, authentication contexts and declarations, and various
> other things. Trust me, even if you have to spend the next 6 months
> learning Spring and XML you'll still be further ahead writing a Shib plugin.

Granted, this assumes you need/want SAML 2 support as opposed to just porting 
to a supported library. So if you don't need the full picture, I would 
suggest just taking a look at the wrapper/prototype (not sure if that's an 
accurate description) that Paul Hethmon did, or even consider simpleSAML.php 
if you're not wedded to Java.

-- Scott