OK, so
based upon the response, looks like there may be a RCP tie here and there may
not. So adding RCP adds to the adds to the mix. As there would need to be a
framework to bridge core JAAS and the Eclipse RCP.
I see.
The
benefits being the ability to provided login configurations and login modules
in plugins(bundles), more easily contribute login modules, add a series of
login events to the RCP, and provide the concept of a "platform"
login to the RCP.
Yes.
So I
believe that the IBM RCP team has done the above but has not contributed it to
RCP project yet. So how important is RCP ?
The Eclipse community seems
to feel some great urgency about adding some kind of “platform”
login to the RCP as you say.
So I
agree that we should add a JAAS/PAM box parallel level to “Other RCP
Apps” or just as another box for "Java Applications"
So there could be two boxes:
“JAAS/RCP” and “Java Apps”, is that right?
My team
owns the JAAS code for the JDK so we could help out here, I just need to
understand the scenario but the scenario I see is the following:
browser->web
application server->jaas login module->create jaas subject (context)->
create jaas principal (digital subject) -> call higgings to populate the
principal objects (HTags)
I can’t quite tell at
this level of detail. Seems reasonable.
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My understanding of JAAS is shallow. I think we
need to create a LoginContext that sits above Higgins API as a client. Then, we
need to create a root context provider impl that uses the JAAS KeyStore. After
that things get really fuzzy for me. I pinged one of the Lotus Workspace folks
who knows JAAS to ask if he’d help us think this through but I
didn’t hear back. I guess in a sense we would be using a JAAS
LoginContext to wrap Higgins that in turn contained H-Tags. Must learn JAAS
better. I did realize one thing the other day: I think we should add a JAAS
LoginContext box to this picture: http://spwiki.editme.com/ArchitectureM4 at a parallel level to “Other RCP Apps”.
So one of
the scenarios that comes up is the integration of JAAS with Higgins, so JAAS
has the notion of LoginModules, these modules are responsible for creating
Subject and Principal objects and maybe Credential objects based upon the
authentication. So is the driving force being able to use JAAS to wrapper HTags
or something else ?
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