[keycloak-dev] abstracting out picketlink

[Stian Thorgersen]

Seems like they're putting to much effort into custom entities for the JPA store. Personally I can't see anyone ever using the JPA store with anything but the supplied entities. I'd rather see them do a plain-SQL store...

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 July, 2013 1:00:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] abstracting out picketlink
> 
> Picketlink has gotten even more generic/abstract with the latest
> release.  Every single API (User, Role, etc.) is now optional.  Its more
> a federated JDO store than a IDM store now.  Having dived into the code,
> I'm a little worried how its going to perform.
> 
> On 7/31/2013 4:49 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> > Just a little smile ;)
> >
> > I think this is better in any case. IMO the IDM interfaces are to
> > generic/abstract to be consumed directly + they do change the API to
> > frequently.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> >> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> >> Sent: Wednesday, 31 July, 2013 2:47:54 AM
> >> Subject: [keycloak-dev] abstracting out picketlink
> >>
> >> Don't laugh, I know I said I wasn't going to do this, but I am now.
> >> Abstracting out picketlink will make an easier transition for me to fit
> >> in the new version of Picketlink.  Obviously it will also allow us to
> >> dump Picketlink too if it turns out its just not going to scale or they
> >> aren't accepting our pull requests.  Hopefully we won't have to do that
> >> though.
> >>
> >> So merge from master often as I'll be committing as I go.
> >>
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