[undertow-dev] When DIGEST support?

[Jason Greene]

On Jun 11, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Anil Saldhana <Anil.Saldhana at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 06/11/2013 02:17 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>> On 6/11/2013 3:07 PM, Jason Greene wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 11, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Anil Saldhana<Anil.Saldhana at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> On 06/11/2013 07:58 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Jun 11, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Jason Greene<jgreene at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Hmm I guess that means we need a picketlink IDM subsystem?
>>>>>>>> We have a subsystem ready.
>>>>>> https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/PLINK/PicketLink+Subsystem
>>>>>> Feedback welcome.
>>>> 
>>>> I like the typed syntax, but I do not like the fact this is using JPA over JDBC. It's going to create a dependency mess (now all wildfly distributions that want to use database auth will require Java EE), and it will slow server initialization for very little gain.
>>>> 
>> They have a file store.
> The Identity Store implementations can be:
> a) database via jpa
> b) file system  (created exclusively for Wildfly)
> c) ldap
> d) mix and match
> 
> Regarding Jason's concern about database authentication requiring EE api 
> (due to JPA) slowing server startup, that is going to be tough as the 
> alternative would be straight JDBC.


Why is that a problem though? JDBC isn't that hard, all vendors these days support portable ANSI 92 sql, and the complexity of queries that an IDM needs to execute is small.

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Jason T. Greene
WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
JBoss, a division of Red Hat