Re: [jdf-dev] PicketLink Federation Quickstarts
As a PicketLink user, I don't think that I would want them to be wrapped into an EAR.
I agree that it doesn't match a deployment environment, and I am afraid that it would
tend to mislead people.
Can't the primary readme for these quickstarts simply explain the required order of
deployment and dependencies? Then each quickstart can reference the prerequisite setup.
This makes the most sense to me from a user's perspective.
How complicated are these relationships? I'm assuming that the primary thing is that
the IDP needs to be deployed first?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pedro Igor Silva" <psilva(a)redhat.com>
To: "jdf-dev" <jdf-dev(a)lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 12:13:46 PM
Subject: [jdf-dev] PicketLink Federation Quickstarts
Hi All,
After discussing with Sande about the best way to port the PicketLink
Federation (SAML SSO) Quickstarts [1] to the PicketLink JDF Quickstarts
[2], she asked me to open a thread to collect some more suggestions
about the best way of doing it.
Basically, the 'issue' we have is that our federation quickstarts depend
on each other. This is important because users won't get the whole
functionality if they deploy just one of the quickstarts. Those
quickstarts demonstrate SSO, so we need an authentication authority,
which we call IdP (Identity Provider), and its relying parties, which we
call SP (Service Provider).
Today we have 5 different IdP applications, and a bunch of SP ones. Each
SP relies on a specific IdP, so in order to get functionality working we
need them deployed together.
Those quickstarts from [1] are not new, users and also customers are very
used to see them this way(as separated WARs which you deploy and test
our functionality). Sande suggested us to think about having a EAR with
all related applications, but this goes against PL real world use cases
and gives a very wrong understanding about PL usage. For us and our
users, the best thing is keep each quickstart as a single WAR.
So, given all that, I would like to collect some feedback about the best
way to document those quickstarts in their README files. Can we have a
section to reference other related quickstarts ?
Probably with links to other quickstarts so we can tell users what they
need to do to get the environment properly set ?
Any other suggestion ?
[1] https://github.com/picketlink2/picketlink-quickstarts/tree/master/saml
[2] https://github.com/jboss-developer/jboss-picketlink-quickstarts
Best regards.
Pedro Igor
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