Single Sign-on and "drag and drop" functionality

[Bonnie Ferguson <b....@kent.ac.uk>]

Dear all

We are looking at Jetspeed 2 for possible use as our University portal 
and are very new to the project. We have 3 questions that we hope the 
mailing list members might be able to help us with:

1. Single Sign-on :  We have seen the documentation at 
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/multiproject/jetspeed-sso/index.html 
that talks about a built-in SSO mechanism, based on a J2 security 
implementation, but we are not sure of the status of this component. We 
are also looking at CAS and Sun Access Manager as two other options and 
would be interested to hear if anyone is using any of these or how they 
are achieving SSO in their portals?

2. Drag and Drop: We have also seen a pre-release version of Jetspeed 
2.1 with "drag and drop" functionality and are wondering if this 
functionality is going to be released into the stable GA version soon?

3. Text alternative: In the  pre-release version of Jetspeed 2.1, there 
is no alternative when Javascript is turned off (just a blank page is 
rendered). Is there going to be any development in this area for the 
next release?

Any help on any of these questions would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Bonnie

-- 
Bonnie Ferguson
Web Team
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent, 
CT2 7NZ
T: +44 (0)1227 823102
http://www.kent.ac.uk
http://www.kent.ac.uk/is/kusp


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Re: Single Sign-on and "drag and drop" functionality

[David Sean Taylor <da...@bluesunrise.com>]

On Feb 7, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Bonnie Ferguson wrote:

> Dear all
>
> We are looking at Jetspeed 2 for possible use as our University  
> portal and are very new to the project. We have 3 questions that we  
> hope the mailing list members might be able to help us with:
>
> 1. Single Sign-on :  We have seen the documentation at http:// 
> portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/multiproject/jetspeed-sso/index.html  
> that talks about a built-in SSO mechanism, based on a J2 security  
> implementation, but we are not sure of the status of this  
> component. We are also looking at CAS and Sun Access Manager as two  
> other options and would be interested to hear if anyone is using  
> any of these or how they are achieving SSO in their portals?
>
CAS and Sun Access Manager are solutions outside of Jetspeed that  
should be easy to integrate using a custom Jetspeed security valve  
(possibly combined with a servlet filter).

I want to point out that the Jetspeed SSO is a portal-centric  
credential store solution.
Where as Shibboleth or CAS are federated identity provider solutions:  
much more complicated beast.
In several projects we have successfully integrated Jetspeed with  
federated identity managers, as well as custom single-signon solutions.
In general it usually comes down to getting a standard Java Subject  
in the pipeline



> 2. Drag and Drop: We have also seen a pre-release version of  
> Jetspeed 2.1 with "drag and drop" functionality and are wondering  
> if this functionality is going to be released into the stable GA  
> version soon?

Yes, we are trying very hard to release 2.1 by the end of the month.
This will include the Jetspeed Desktop (the client side aggregator  
and drag and drop)
We plan to replace the default customizer with the desktop customizer  
in all cases (but this is configurable)

>
> 3. Text alternative: In the  pre-release version of Jetspeed 2.1,  
> there is no alternative when Javascript is turned off (just a blank  
> page is rendered). Is there going to be any development in this  
> area for the next release?
>

I think you are referring to the login portlet.
We have another login portlet that doesnt use javascript if required.
There are parts of the Administration interface which require  
Javascript.
Of course the Desktop requires Javascript


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