[wildfly-dev] PicketLink pulling in JPA (Was: Changes to the PicketLink Module)

[Bill Burke]

The API/SPI you're talking about is higher up the stack, IMO, at least 
from the picketlink IDM API.

On 8/6/2013 6:59 PM, Tomaž Cerar wrote:
> Guys!
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> I think this discussion has currently no point, as clearly there are two
> groups of people talking about different things.
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> Lets take step back and define what is being discussed.
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> Jason is talking about having some core IDM api/spi part of WildFly so
> we could build on top of it,
> first use case we need this for is Undertow which would use it for
> adding new authentication mechanisms.
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> What most of others are arguing is how should PL be integrated into WildFly.
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> To lay some common grounds here, if we want to put anything into core
> WildFly not as a subsystem it has to have as minimal dependencies as
> possible.
> If that dependency is only JDK that is optimal solution, this is why
> discussion why we dont want to have anything EE-like in WildFly core.
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> To make it easier to understand, there is long term plan to split
> WildFly core into separete distribution that will be about 10-15mb big
> and will then allow you to install whatever profile you need it to run,
> that might be EE, OSGi, TB, CD or whatever profile or set of extensions
> you will need to run your applications.
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> This "core" exists already today but it is part of same code base and
> distribution, that is why most people see AS just as whole EE bundle
> that we provide for download.
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> So what can we do about IDM integration? First we need some core API/SPI
> that we would like to have as part of WildFly core
> and as add-on to that there should be extension (subsystem) that could
> provide all the advanced stuff users would need.
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> I don't know PL too much so i dont know if it is possible to have some
> core api/spi and everything else loaded as plugins (maybe via service
> loader)?
> this way user could configure jpa based storage if running in EE
> container otherwise it could be file, memory or direct db based one(i
> have no idea which ones are there)
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> So what we need as starting point is some as small as possible set of PL
> (or whatever else we need) that would embedded in core and that could
> communicate fuhrer.
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> tomaz
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