Good to hear from you. We have
just provisioned our initial Higgins milestone 0.2 code
on Eclipse, and were preparing to get back to those projects that had
expressed an interest in Higgins, so your timing is perfect. The
initiators of the Higgins project are on the East Coast. The
afternoon of Tuesday 6th could work on this end. We also have a lot
of flexibility on December 7, 8, and 9. Let me know if any of these days
could work for you.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Carroll
[mailto:BCarroll@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:56 PM
To: mary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; higgins-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ali Kheirolomoom; Tim Buss
Subject: Eclipse Higgins and
Eclipse ALF projects
Hi Mary (and Higgins team members),
I work on the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF
project). Mike Malinkovich had sent an email introducing us. The ALF team
has been making great progress putting the foundation for development tools to
interoperate in far richer ways than previously possible. And now that we
have the "basic plumbing" working, we are turning our attention to
the topic of single sign-on among development tools that communicate
via web services.
I've spent some time reading the material and wiki on
Higgins, and my impression is that Higgins is concerned with federated identity
and rights for accessing identity information, and that is certainly has some
intersection with what ALF will need. We have been looking at open
source projects, such as JOSSO, Shibboleth (and its component OpenSAML) among
others, and would like to start a dialogue on how ALF and Higgins can work
together and ideally have some synergies such as sharing common
technology.
You can find some documents on ALF at http://www.eclipse.org/alf.
Currently, ALF's security focus is on single sign-on, but eventually it will
expand to authorization and other security aspects.
Please let me know what times work for you and your team
members for a call where we can explore the intersection between ALF single
sign-on and Higgins.
Brian Carroll
Serena Fellow
Serena
(ofc) (503) 617-2436
(cell) (503) 318-2017
bcarroll@xxxxxxxxxx
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