Hi, Thanks Chetan for the proposal.
I find this a very interesting project and would think it would be a good addition to the Apache Felix portfolio. What do others think ? Disclosure: Chetan also works for Adobe and we have been discussing this before. Regards Felix Am 26.09.2012 um 15:56 schrieb Chetan Mehrotra: > I have been working on a poc to simplify usage if JAAS with Sling and > Jackrabbit. Using of JAAS within OSGi is often tricky because of > classloading issues. There has been some work done around this > > 1. JAAS support in Apache Karaf > 2. Proposal by Stefan Vladov in the presentation [1] given by him at > OSGi Community Event 2011 > > Following the proposal at #2 and borrowing some ideas from Apache > Karaf I implemented a bundle which simplifies usage of JAAS within > OSGi env. It supports following features > > 1. It can work both in Standalone and AppServer deployments i.e. in > those environment where global JAAS configuration might be used by > other applications and our usage of JAAS should not affect them > 2. It enables usage of OSGi Configuration support to dynamically > configure the login modules. > 3. It allows LoginModule instances to be created via factories > registered in OSGi Service Registry > 4. It does not require the client to depend on any OSGi API > 5. It works well with the dynamic nature of the OSGi env > 6. Implementation depends only on Core OSGi API and ConfigAdmin > > Complete details are provided at [2] > > Kindly have a look at it and provide feedback!! > > Chetan Mehrotra > > [1] > http://www.slideshare.net/mfrancis/common-security-services-consolidation-patterns-for-legacy-components-stefan-vladov > [2] https://github.com/chetanmeh/c/wiki/JAAS-in-OSGi
