Shibboleth Developers

[Ian Young <>]

Tom Scavo wrote:

> You're idea is intriguing, Ian.  GridShib hopes to integrate SimpleCA
> and MyProxy into the Shib IdP down the road.  Your suggestions might
> make that an easier process for us.

I don't know how much it will address your needs, but this afternoon I 
lashed up some code that implements a generic plugin system.  What it 
lets you do is add things like this to the end of your idp.xml:

        <!-- example generic plugins -->
	<Plugin name="my.plugin" 
implementation="edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.idp.TestPlugin">
                <SomeConfiguration>text</SomeConfiguration>
        </Plugin>
        <Plugin name="boring.plugin" implementation="java.util.Date"/>

The implementation class has to have a null constructor; if the instance 
implements common.PluggableConfigurationComponent (a pre-existing 
interface in the Java code), it is also passed the Element to let it 
configure itself from that.  These plugins are stored in a collection 
you can reach from the IdPProtocolSupport, so bits of custom code 
elsewhere can grab plugins by name by saying support.getPlugin("my.plugin").

Once I've had a chance to test it a bit, I'll let people see the diffs 
(which are pretty small).  Having something concrete to throw rocks at 
is always better ;-)

        -- Ian