Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

Seems to me that this another shib profile, as opposed to a java target 
feature.  No reason it couldn't be implemented in java and share code 
with the java target, though.

-Walter


 wrote:

> 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.

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