[Savannah-hackers] Re: [CoreTeam][Bizplan] Deal. (was: Re: cost of Registration Statement)

[Hans Zandbelt]

Hi all,

I do not intend to put much effort into the Java demo
implementation anymore, since we are working on a C
implementation now, which we consider to be more
important.

I suggest the following:

  1. I put the Java source code on SourceForge or DotGnu
     as it is.
     Anybody can contribute to improve it and/or port it
     to Kaffe. If anyone wants to use this in a non-demo
     environment, improvement will be necessary.
  2. I work together with someone who actually tries to
     get IDsec-Java stuff to work on his system, so I'll be
     able to compose useful documentation on how to install,
     setup and run IDsec-Java.

2. is a requirement, since a lot of external tools are needed
(MySQL, Turbine, Ant, Muffin, JSSE) and the setup of the
complete demo environment (Profile Requester, Profile Owner
and Profile Manager) and is not always trivial (although most
of the code is). We hope to provide a more smooth and integrated
setup in our C variant.

So, if someone is willing to cooporate, we can make a start.

Hans.

PS1: the Java implementation is not completely up-to-date with
     the spec anymore (mostly naming issues)

PS2: be aware, our IDsec-Java demo runs as two proxies between
     your web-browser and the rest of the internet, showing
     content adaptation of web-sites. If you want to use IDsec
     in your web-server, it has to be be able either to communicate
     to/through a proxy, or link with IDsec Java (Sun JDK) classes.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Sugar" <address@hidden>
To: "Norbert Bollow" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>;
<address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, 23 January, 2002 17:54
Subject: Re: [CoreTeam][Bizplan] Deal. (was: Re: cost of Registration
Statement)


> There is a problem with having IDsec hosted on Savannah until IDsec
> demonstratably runs under Kaffe.  I think this issue is a bit of a
> chicken and egg problem.  Having IDsec released under the GPL and
> available on Savannah as it sits now means other people can start
> working on fixing issues like Kaffe.  This helps Hans, who has no
> experiance with getting kaffe working, and helps the community make
> IDsec more usable.  If this cannot be done, then I suggest we host a
> distribution of IDsec on dotgnu.org until it is at least kaffe capable.
>
> Norbert Bollow wrote:
>
> >>Question before me is I need a Free Software webservice frame for my
> >>project mainly authentication service (yes i am looking for it and need
> >>it in few months). Can DotGNU give that ?
> >>
> >
> >It would certainly fit into the DotGNU framework, provided that
> >it's GPL'd and doesn't conflict with any GNU policy.
> >
> >There are three "active proposals" which have code that could
> >maybe meet your needs:
> >
> >- masc
> >- IDsec
> >- GlobalLogin
> >
> >ISsec and GlobalLogin are unfortunately not publicly released
> >yet, even though the authors and copyright holders had the
> >intention to do this.
> >
> >(I don't know the exact status and what the problem is with
> >regard to GlobalLogin.  With IDsec the problem seems to be
> >that the author was told that before he can put the code on
> >Savannah, he must first port it to run on Kaffe.)
> >
> >>( I am asking this from the view of a client, the project in which
> >> i joined recently is a possible client for DotGNU Inc.
> >> I dont have enough justifications to provide if I say DotGNU will
> >> help. Let us solve that first.)
> >>
> >
> >Greetings, Norbert.
> >