Re: [Proposal] An Apache Camel Integratation Proposal

[Francesco Chicchiriccò <il...@apache.org>]

Hey Hadrian and Giacomo,
how things are proceeding? Are you facing some weird issues? Are you 
close to the target?
Please keep us informed about your progresses :-)

Regards.

On 21/11/2013 08:37, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote:
> On 20/11/2013 20:12, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote:
>
>> I saw the proposal on user@camel and it sounds great. I see potential
>> fringe benefits for the Camel project as well and volunteer to help out.
>
> Great to hear!
> I think I've found you on GitHub: if you agree, I'd add you as 
> committer to https://github.com/Tirasa/SyncopeCamel
>
> I can provide some (more) guidance to Syncope internals, if needed.
>
> Summarizing: Giacomo, Hadrian (and anyone else interested) will be 
> building a PoC - based on referenced proposal - on the above mentioned 
> GitHub repository. This mailing list will be used for any related 
> discussion (if you agree, I will enable the mail notification from 
> GitHub to dev@).
> Once done, we will start discussing whether to a start a complete 
> implementation (somewhere in the official Syncope SVN) based on PoC 
> results.
>
> Do you (or anyone else here at dev@) see any problem with this working 
> model? I am proposing this way (instead of a bare dedicate branch on 
> SVN) mainly because Giacomo is not committer (for Hadrian, being an 
> ASF member, there would be no issue).
>
> WDYT (especially fellow PMC members)?
>
> Regards.
>
>> On 11/20/2013 11:25 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> in order to be able to freely experiment with this proposal, I've
>>> created an almost empty repository at GitHub
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Tirasa/SyncopeCamel
>>>
>>> where Giacomo will be soon push a simple overlay project, based on
>>> Syncope 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.
>>>
>>> The idea is to override there some Syncope components (UserController,
>>> RoleController, ...) and introduce the ProvisioningManager - being 
>>> still
>>> able to successfully run the relevant integration tests.
>>>
>>> Once we've get a working PoC there, we could start discussing 
>>> whether to
>>> perform a full implementation here, and also the pmost suitable way to
>>> accept Giacomo's contribution.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> On 20/11/2013 15:24, Giacomo Lamonaco wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your reply! I really appreciate your interest. I'm planning
>>>> to release a POC in the next months, before the end of February,
>>>> because i can work on it only two days for week.
>>>>
>>>> I will keep you updated in the next weeks.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Messaggio originale -----
>>>> Da: "Colm O hEigeartaigh" <co...@apache.org>
>>>> A: dev@syncope.apache.org
>>>> Inviato: Mercoledì, 20 novembre 2013 14:52:00
>>>> Oggetto: Re: [Proposal] An Apache Camel Integration Proposal
>>>>
>>>> It looks pretty cool! It's great to see the further integration of
>>>> Syncope with other Apache projects (e.g. CXF). What sort of time frame
>>>> do you envisage for this task + for what version of Syncope - 1.2/1.3?
>>>> Colm.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:25 AM, giacomolm
>>>> <gi...@tirasa.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I forgot the most important part .. what do you think ?
>>>>>
>>>>>> giacomolm wrote
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Apache Syncope is a great solution for Identity Management. In 
>>>>>>> this month I analyzed some use cases that led me to reflect 
>>>>>>> about the flexibility of provisioning process to adapt to 
>>>>>>> various (and sometimes very cumbersome) deployment scenarios.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The questions is: How well Syncope orchestrates the 
>>>>>>> provisioning? The
>>>>>>> problem is that Syncope lacks of a provisioning manager: this 
>>>>>>> component could allow an easy and fully customizable definition 
>>>>>>> of provisioning
>>>>>>> control logic.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My proposal [1] consists in a redefinition of the (user and role)
>>>>>>> controller concept, through the Apache Camel framework. Why this
>>>>>>> framework? I think that Camel fits the need of easy control logic
>>>>>>> definition. Moreover Camel supports a wide range of external 
>>>>>>> components: it means that it can be easily integrated with 
>>>>>>> existing frameworks, like Activiti.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1] http://www.slideshare.net/giacomolm/camel-proposaltirasa

-- 
Francesco Chicchiriccò

Tirasa - Open Source Excellence
http://www.tirasa.net/

ASF Member, Apache Syncope PMC chair, Apache Cocoon PMC Member
http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/