Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> A) I understand there are 2 versions of windows 2003, one geared towards
> the 32 bit processor, whilst the other version is targeted at 
> the 64 bit processor. Will shibboleth work on either of these 
> operating systems, most importantly will it work on the 
> windows 2003 x64 platform.

I can't tell whether you mean SP or IdP and they're completely different.
The IdP runs anywhere a standard JDK and Tomcat work.

I have no idea whether the SP runs on 64 bit Windows, and I don't have
anything I can test it on. It's built with a very old 32-bit compiler, so if
it runs, it only runs incidentally. It would seem questionable that a 64-bit
IIS process could load a 32-bit filter DLL without a thunking layer and any
number of other issues arising.

The 1.3 code does not build cleanly on a lot of 64-bit compilers, including
Microsoft's. 2.0 should build cleanly, but testing it is probably out of my
hands, I don't have the hardware or the time.

> With respect to the unix box, we are planning on purchasing an entry
> level server. The server we are wishing to purchase is
> shipped with the latest version of solaris, which is Solaris 10. Will
> shibboleth work on Solaris 10 and if so, which version of shibboleth
> will this be?

1.3 builds on all versions of Solaris I've tried it on but usually with a
lot of effort to build it, especially on x86 Solaris. I use Sun's compiler
exclusively, but the SDSS folks do gcc builds. It's not a fun platform to
deal with for open source and out of the box it's horrid because so many GNU
commands are missing.

-- Scott