Brent: IIRC, we had an issue with the early 1.3 red back and oracle OID; I think we had to do a patch at our client and manually replace jars in continuum under tomcat/ Geronimo. I might have that source still somewhere...
As long as we maintain LDAP integration as easily as it is to configure now (sarc) as I have several hundred users on 422 projects... And I need 1.5 as we moved to Java 8 on our boxes... Louis Sent from my iPad > On May 11, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Brent Atkinson <brent.atkin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > On multiple fronts I discovered that the project's dependency on Redback is > a blocker for using Java 8 and configuring the application for the Servlet > 3 spec. There are also larger issues with authentication, authorization and > user/role management that will need to be addressed to improve the overall > quality of Continuum going forward. > > It is not clear what the best strategy is for continuing: > > * Is it feasible to continue to use redback since its migration to a > sub-component of Archiva? > * How difficult would this re-integration be in terms of required changes > or level or effort? > > If this is a considerable task, it may make more sense to patch (or > recompile) the old version to unblock forward progress in the short term, > while working to migrate to something like Spring Security in later > releases. However, while trying to evaluate this as a possibility I had > trouble locating the historical versions. > > * Where is the source code for the older versions (specifically, 1.3-M3)? > > Regards, > Brent
