Great explanation Marcel.
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Marcel Kolsteren <marcel(a)meandi.nl> wrote:
Apart from the question about whether to extend Seam Security with
support
for delegated access mechanisms, there is another thing to take into
account. There is a new OAuth 2.0 standard, which is very interesting. It's
a lot less complex than OAuth 1.0, and although it's still very new (AFAIK
the spec hasn't even been completed), Facebook already implemented it. I
already added an external authentication option in the PicketLink Seam
module, based on their OAuth 2.0 access point, so that users can be
authenticated with their Facebook accounts.
This is going to be the 80% case. It's all the rave this days. The same goes
for Twitter auth.
And yes, OAuth is a pain for a newcomer. I encountered it's complexity when
twitter forced me to introduce OAuth into my shell script that backs up my
account. A lot of work to keep the status quo.
-Dan
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