[security-dev] common module in picketlink

[Anil Saldhana]

Marek,
   I do not think I have any objections.  I will create the common 
module on Monday and do a bunch of "git mv" to start the common module 
going.

If there are any objections/feedback, we have until Monday.

Regards,
Anil

On 01/18/2013 11:09 AM, Marek Posolda wrote:
> I mentioned yesterday that it may be good to have something like
> separate "common" module, which will contain some stuff and
> functionalities, which may be needed across all other picketlink modules.
>
> Example of such things could be:
> - Class StringUtil from federation module (Some stuff in this class is
> specific to federation, but some common methods like
> StringUtil.isNotNull, StringUtil.getSystemPropertyAsString etc. are
> useful in other modules as well)
> - Probably some other util classes in federation
> - Some parts of logging
> - Reflection and properties helper classes from IDM module
> - Base64 util class (Currently we have same class forked two times in
> picketlink project. Once in "federation" module and once in "idm" module)
> - Probably some more...
>
> wdyt?
> Marek