[security-dev] PicketLink restructure

Pete Muir pmuir at redhat.com
Tue Oct 2 10:08:18 EDT 2012


Or maybe I'm just confused about the naming, it seems odd to me for "core" to target Java EE, whilst modules target Java SE...

On 2 Oct 2012, at 05:35, Pedro Igor Silva wrote:

> If I understood correctly, Pete asked for something like we have with PicketBox. A core project for Java SE and a cdi-based one with the cdi glue code.
> 
> That way we can work with core functionality and expose those for some specific environment: CDI, JAX-RS, EJB, WS, AS, etc. This can also help others using picketlink in their projects.
> 
> Regards.
> Pedro Igor 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shane Bryzak" <sbryzak at redhat.com>
> To: "Pete Muir" <pmuir at redhat.com>
> Cc: security-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 11:03:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [security-dev] PicketLink restructure
> 
> On 02/10/12 10:00, Pete Muir wrote:
>> It seems odd to me that CDI is called core? I thought the idea was that picketlink core would be pure Java SE, and CDI support gets added on top.
> 
> Some of the modules are Java SE (IDM, Social) and core is the CDI-based 
> "glue" that integrates it all into an easily consumable package for EE devs.
>> 
>> But +1 to the merge. The more we can put under one project, with one brand the better.
>> 
>> I talked to Anil about merging PicketBox into PicketLink as well, as "just another module" and I think this will make things a lot simple for users to understand.
>> 
>> On 1 Oct 2012, at 15:30, Shane Bryzak wrote:
>> 
>>> In the interests of presenting a clear message to our developers, one of the steps we'll be taking is to consolidate the various PicketLink projects into a single project and presenting this as the "go to" solution for application security.  For now I've merged the CDI and IDM subprojects (these are now submodules of the PicketLink project, with "CDI" renamed to "Core") and the plan is to eventually merge the social and federation modules also.
>>> 
>>> You can find the new GitHub repository here: https://github.com/picketlink (renamed from picketlink-cdi) and the picketlink-idm repository has now been deleted.  For anyone working on these modules, please use the new repository from now on.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Shane
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