RE: Database Related Question - LDAP

[Carlos Ortiz <ca...@covad.net>]

Is the first try at the LDAP code complete?  I'd love to try/test it for you
guys.  Just point me.  My production use of jetspeed2 is relying on this.


Thanks,
Carlos.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shah Amit [mailto:amit_shah25@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:46 AM
To: jetspeed-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Database Related Question

Hi Mike and David,

Thanks for your guidance.

I read a couple of tutorials on JAAS and I think I kindaa get the idea. I am

now going thru all the SPI interfaces and trying to judge what I would be 
implementing and what not (probably leave 
MessageDigestCredentialPasswordEncoder alone).

I think I will have to implement the SecurityAccess.java interface and make 
it point to my DB instead of the jetspeed provided implementation ?? ... 
(Apart from couple of others that I might need)

I know its too much to ask, but if you have like a block diagram or some 
sort of diagram or something like that explaining how these interfaces 
interact, that would be really great.

Once again, appreciate your help
Amit
----Original Message Follows----
From: David Sean Taylor <da...@bluesunrise.com>
Reply-To: "Jetspeed Users List" <je...@jakarta.apache.org>
To: Jetspeed Users List <je...@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Database Related Question
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:07:04 -0800

mike long wrote:
>I think David is saying that you should create implementations of the 
>interfaces he references below. I am doing that to allow Jetspeed-2 to use 
>an LDAP directory server instead of a relational database. My strategy has 
>been to check out the Jetspeed-2 code from CVS and then write my own 
>implementations of these classes and wire them in using the 
>jetspeed-spring.xml, security.xml, and a couple other configuration files. 
>A really good set of unit tests exists for the security components already 
>that will tell you if your implementation of those interfaces is correct.

>You will have good assurance that your implementation is correct when all 
>the component/security tests work.  The tests should run out of the box 
>hooked up to your custom implementations.
>
>Your work will be easier than mine since you are only mapping the 
>Jetspeed-2 security tables to your own.   Since LDAP is not generally a 
>transactional resource like a relational database, I am having difficulty 
>because the existing suite of security tests is hardwired to use SQL 
>persistence.  That said, the work for you is still considerable. I would 
>suggest reading up on Maven, all the tutorials on JAAS, and then the Spring

>reference manual.  The later will show you how to wire the application 
>together using your own security implementations.

I setup a new set of a maven project and basic skeletons for the services 
like this in a few minutes (but yes, I ve done it before).

Integration with the unit tests will take more time and thought.

But yes, if you are new to Spring and Maven and J2, its going to take more 
time. The lack of docs doesn't help:

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/spi.html


I still need to review your LDAP code. Sorry I haven't got to that yet.

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David Sean Taylor
Bluesunrise Software
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