[keycloak-dev] Can I remove AuthenticationProvider now?

[Bill Burke]

On 7/31/2014 3:26 PM, Marek Posolda wrote:
> +1, I've did some testing of ActiveDirectory with latest picketlink and
> UserFederationProvider and works fine.
>
> But do you also want to remove picketlink modules?

We don't have to remove them, but the non-abstract classes are LDAP 
specific.

> I would personally
> keep them to allow people to init picketlink PartitionManager from
> different location ? Good thing on LDAPFederationProvider is, that it's
> defacto not tightly coupled to LDAP but it's using picketlink, so it can
> be used to federate users from any picketlink IdentityStore.
>

It is tightly coupled with LDAP at least what is in trunk.

> So far in my local "picketlink-master" fork, I've changed
> UserFederationProvider to use those to obtain PartitionManager and I
> removed stuff you copied before from it (like PartitionManagerRegistry
> etc). I hope to merge it early on Monday before you join online. wdyt?
>

I've been doing some work with LDAPFederationProvider today.  If you 
don't think it can be done by Monday, then it can hold off until after 
Beta 4 release.



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