Help Wanted, by eawb

I was asked recently, “What is the expected commitment level if I want to get involved?” Very good question. Start by sending me an email: asa dot openliberty at zenn dot net.

This project has already seen a great deal of support from people offering ideas, opinions, code for reference, code for use in the project, implementations for test harness installations, and advanced hosting! These are awesome and completely appreciated! Each provides its own value at its own level.

The question, however, was more about getting involved in the direct development of the libraries. The developers who commit to working on this project will naturally (and organizationally) have the largest impact on the execution and direction of the development. At the moment we’re in the gathering/documenting/architecture phase, but very soon we’ll start committing code. When this happens we’ll need more support from some people who want to write code. This can range from a few classes to a large section of the code! The commitment level that will make this project a success is simply: Offer what you can do, and then deliver

I’m looking forward to working with other developers. If you want to get started you can checkout (subversion) the java-xmltooling project from Shibboleth repository, as we’ll be using this xml tooling as the basis for our work.

later,

asa

Pattern Perspective Playground Style,
by phillinewshound

Derrick Harcey has offered to supply the project with hosting space on his servers which are sitting idle at the moment. This is an awesome offer and we’ll be taking full advantage, hosting several Liberty implementations!

Part of the intention of this project is to create a testing ground for developers who will eventually use the ID-WSF 2.0 WSC Library. The implementations listed here are only for openLiberty developers at the start. It remains to be seen which and what will be offered in the future.

At first we will install:

• HP Select Federation (HP)
• Liberty Open Source Toolkit (Conor Cahill, OSS)
• Open SSO, Open Federation (Sun, OSS)
• Sun Java System Access Manager (Sun)
• Sun Java System Federation Manager (Sun)

Why this post? Well, do you have an ID-WSF 2 implementation that you’d like to be part of our test harness group? If so, please contact me using asa dot openliberty at zenn dot net with info. I’d like to understand your requirements and help to get you rolling.

Remember, Thursday developer call is coming up, March 8th at 8am PST. I’ll post the call-in number and code to the wsf-dev list, so be sure to sign on.