Re: [security-dev] IDM API/Implementation

On 8/22/2012 11:47 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote: > Hi all, > (Shane will add more info to this thread soon) > > Shane has been driving the standalone IDM API/Implementation project in > the PicketLink umbrella. This is a brand new project. > https://github.com/picketlink/picketlink-idm > > The Key classes/interfaces are: > https://github.com/picketlink/picketlink-idm/blob/master/api/src/main/jav... > https://github.com/picketlink/picketlink-idm/blob/master/api/src/main/jav... > > The Manager has a simple api for user/role/group. Now each of these > types (User,Role,Group) is an IdentityType (implying they get attributes). > > So for an user, if you want to store/retrieve/represent certificates, > password recovery Qs, you can do so as attributes. > > Currently implementation is done using JPA. > > There is plan to do an LDAP implementation. > I would also suggest text file based impl, as well as a layered hybrid federated solution. What I mean by that is the security developer receives one interface to query from, but the information may be contained in a variety of sources, LDAP, text file, keystore, DBMS, HTTP. For example, a company might not want to store private keys within an LDAP server, but is quite happy storing user/roles in an LDAP server.