Shibboleth Developers

At 1:08 PM -0500 11/14/03, 

 wrote:
> 2) Continue last monday's discussion of the native java target 
> version,  develop a strategy for the initial  implementation, and 
> bring this discussion close to closure.
>
> Following last week's discussion, Howard has UPDATED his paper 
> titled "Shibboleth Java Target (Proposal)". The edited version of 
> Howard's paper is available at:
>
> http://stc.cis.brown.edu/~stc/Projects/Shibboleth/Version-2/Java/draft-gilbert-javatarget-01.html
>
> Note: the changes are highlighted in yellow......

I'd like to add a fourth possible configuration for the java target 
-- for use within a standalone java application, running without a 
servlet container. An example of this would be the LionShare client, 
a project recently funded by Mellon. Hopefully, this would just be a 
different wrapper around the core shib functionality. In these cases, 
there's no browser involved. And, maybe, the initial Assertions 
arrive as part of the application data stream, and the app then hands 
them off to the shib library.

I also would like to suggest that the document include a section on 
Authz, since its likely that the functionality provided by the 
servlet container will be inadequate.