[keycloak-dev] isolate picketlink dependency please

[Bill Burke]

On 4/30/2014 11:52 AM, Marek Posolda wrote:
> On 30.4.2014 16:14, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
>>> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
>>> Sent: Wednesday, 30 April, 2014 2:48:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] isolate picketlink dependency please
>>>
>>> Primary Keycloak code should not depend on Picketlink.  Picketlink
>>> should always be hidden by SPIs.  So, if we need to provide LDAP support
>>> on EAP using an older version of Picketlink, then we write a separate
>>> maven module using that older version of Picketlink and plug it in.
>>>
>>> Following me?
>> Yep
>>
>>> Right now, it looks that only the Mongo data model has a PL dependency.
>>>     Correct?
>> Yes (except authentication/authentication-picketlink of course)
> Ok, I did not know that using picketlink is so big headache. Generally
> said, it seems that if your project want to run on EAP, it's much easier
> to depend on some 3rd party library, which can be bundled directly in
> your WAR instead on "jboss" projects, which are available as modules in
> EAP...:-(
>

It's not that.  Its the whole brew, we-must-build-everything-we-ship, 
way of doing things.



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