Re: [RTC] ?? Review requested on intermediate patches for pluggable JACC

[Alan D. Cabrera]

David Jencks wrote:
I've attached some patches for an incremental step towards pluggable 
JACC to http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1563

Pre RTC I would check these in and pray that someone would notice and 
if I was really lucky comment, and then continue with the next steps.  
We'll see how RTC works with this.  In particular I intend to continue 
work on this stuff on my flight today so I don't actually expect to 
check in these patches.  I do think that there's enough there to see 
where I'm headed and object if you don't like it.

These patches turn the security builder into a gbean implementing a 
SecurityBuilder interface, and move stuff around with module 
dependencies so it still works.  The next steps are:

- make multiple security namespaces possible and to determine if a 
namespace driven scheme is plausible: it might be even though I don't 
think we can run more than one JACC implementation in a geronimo 
instance at once.

- review the SecurityBuilder interface, especially the parts used by 
TSSEditor

- provide an additional JACC implementation to prove this stuff 
works.  See if there's any spec-specific functionality in our current 
security builder that can be moved into a superclass or helper for use 
by other builders.

thanks
david jencks

I will commit to reading this.  I'm way busy this week.  I will read it 
on the plane this weekend.


Regards,
Alan