Re: [undertow-dev] When DIGEST support?

On Jun 11, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Anil Saldhana <Anil.Saldhana(a)redhat.com&gt; 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&lt;Anil.Saldhana(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>>> >>>>>> On 06/11/2013 07:58 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Jun 11, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Jason Greene&lt;jgreene(a)redhat.com&gt; 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.