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Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] Moving MicroProfile JWT to JakartaSecurity?

Mike/Tom,

 

Vertx not only the Oauth2 module (https://vertx.io/docs/vertx-auth-oauth2/java/) is a very good example for a project developed at Eclipse Foundation (also by a large number of committers from Red Hat) that interacts with OIDC or JWT without using either Jakarta Security or MicroProfile JWT despite largely written in Java.

 

Werner

 

Von: Thomas Watson
Gesendet: Freitag, 11. November 2022 21:15
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Betreff: Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] Moving MicroProfile JWT to JakartaSecurity?

 

There is competition and there is reinventing the wheel.  Both are absolutely allowed by the various projects at the Eclipse Foundation.  I would not argue for the Eclipse Foundation to put any inhibitors from such activities.

 

What I would like to see out of the specifications developed from the various Eclipse Specification working groups are technologies that are successful and generally useable by the largest group possible.  Something that always grates on me is when I hear one specification WG claim they cannot use a perfectly good and well specified technology simply because it is not from the X specification working group.

 

Something seems wrong if specifications developed within the various specification working groups are not viewed as highly attractive for use and depended upon by other specifications being developed in a separate Eclipse working group.  There may be valid reasons the current versions of the specification cannot be used, but these should be identified and hopefully expressed as valid requirements which could be considered by the specification WG for enhancements to their future versions.

 

Tom

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Scott, Everyone will agree with your statement that there must be a good reason to develop a new specification. But “MicroProfile did it first” is not a valid argument against doing so. Let me repeat what I said earlier: the official policy

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Scott,

 

Everyone will agree with your statement that there must be a good reason to develop a new specification. But “MicroProfile did it first” is not a valid argument against doing so. 

 

Let me repeat what I said earlier: the official policy of the Eclipse Foundation is that projects and specifications can compete. The fact that something has been specified in MicroProfile does not prevent Jakarta EE from acting in the best interest of its technology and community. Those decisions should be made based on the technical requirements, not on FUD.

 

As John Clingan pointed out, MicroProfile is proudly different than Jakarta EE. And those differences mean there are valid technical and non-technical reasons why an MP spec cannot be used by Jakarta EE. I think others have been pointing some such reasons out on this thread. 

 

To answer Mark Little’s earlier question: just because Jakarta EE *can* compete, does not mean that it *will* compete. That’s a decision to be made by the group within the governance and policy framework provided by the Eclipse Foundation. 

 

Have a great weekend everyone. 

 

Mike Milinkovich

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On Nov 11, 2022, at 12:15 PM, Scott Stark <starksm64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



For specification projects in a related space, the existence of more than one needs to be justified. There is a reason everyone involved in specification/standards work raises this well trodden satire out at some point:

 

 

On Nov 10, 2022 at 1:09:41 PM, Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John,

Good points. There are indeed non-technical differentiators between MircoProfile and Jakarta EE. No one would dispute that.

But since we are discussing important philosophical points, let us add the fact that the Eclipse Foundation has always and will always permit competing projects, and that extends to specifications as well. We will never endorse the allocation of a market to one coalition of vendors over another set of vendors. So just because MicroProfile has a specification in a particular domain in no way prevents Jakarta EE from creating a similar spec. That work may or may not be based on prior work done at MicroProfile, so "move" doesn't really factor into the discussion.

As you point out, there are important non-technical differences between the two. Any one of those could be a good reason why Jakarta EE may wish to have its own specifications which overlap or compete with MicroProfile specs.  In other words, there can be a myriad of reasons why competing specs may occur: business, technical, community, vendor support, etc etc. But "MicroProfile did it first" does not provide it with any sort of veto.

On 2022-11-10 1:29 p.m., John Clingan wrote:

I’m inserting this as a general  point in this discussion,  which is related to joining the MP JWT call.

 

There are non-technical reasons MicroProfile exists. MicroProfile is a flatter working group with fewer processes, somewhat different values (like backwards compatibility differences), releases more often, and  is $250,000 USD cheaper *annually* (for large organizations) than joining Jakarta EE Working Group as a strategic member. Whenever talk of moving a specification to Jakarta, I feel the need to remind folks of the non-technical differences between Jakarta and MicroProfile.

 

For these reasons, I am against moving *any* specifications out of MicroProfile to Jakarta, although I am open to the idea of moving Jakarta specifications to MicroProfile. The exception is concurrency, which was always intended to move to Jakarta.

 

My two cents.



On Nov 9, 2022, at 9:52 AM, David Blevins <dblevins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

On Nov 9, 2022, at 6:31 AM, arjan tijms <arjan.tijms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Hi,

 

On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 9:55 PM David Blevins <dblevins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MP JWT does define bindings for EJB, Servlets, JACC, JASPIC, etc.

 

True, although essentially spelling out everything is unnecessary if one just says that MP JWT in a Jakarta EE environment is/exposes itself as an Jakarta Security Authentication Mechanism. All those other things then follow from that. Specifically this authentication mechanism bit is missing there. I do see identity store being mentioned, and perhaps it comes from the confusion that many people have between the concept of an authentication mechanism (FORM, BASIC, etc) and an identity store (DB, LDAP, FILE, etc). 

 

I'd be on board for making these kinds of changes and improvements in MP JWT.  The next version planned is 3.0, so we can even make breaking changes if we needed to accommodate.  The next MP JWT call is Thursday, November 17th at 8:00am Pacific.  Are you open to attending at least once and discussing?  Here's the call information:

 

# Procedural

In CN4J we did agree to some technical principles.  One of them is that duplication should be avoided.

I do understand how things can feel that way from an emotional perspective.  My emotional perspective is that we're fortunate to have this conversation at all, because when MicroProfile and MP JWT were created Java EE was dead with no plans to continue.  I'm thankful and proud of MicroProfile for its impact on the decision to open source Java EE.  I'm happy that both Jakarta EE and MicroProfile now live at the Eclipse Foundation and are implemented side-by-side in most the major implementations.

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