On 8/14/07, Spark Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Glad to see that you are also interested in developing JDK6 missing > features. Would you also record your development plan and related > information to the wiki once you start, since the JGSS provider may be > harmony classlib specific feature according to your plan.
JGSS is not a new feature of JDK6, but introduced since JDK1.4. Furthermore, I am not sure whether we shall implement it ourselves since there might exist an open source candidate which is also compatible with harmony's license somewhere. Maybe it is a little earlier to make the plan.:) Recently, I looked into jndi related feature. And found that RI provides two > more jndi service providers than us - Ldap & Corba. These service > providers > are clients used to interact with ldap or corba servers. > IIRC, Apache Yoko already provides corba features and its' binary has > already been included in our build. If luck, we may utilize yoko to > facilitate corba provider implementation. +1. As far as ldap is concerned, apache also has an apache ldap server. May be > it can provide some help. At least we can use it in our test suite. Those projects, as well as harmony, consist an ecosystem.:) Any thoughts, opinions? > > Best regards > > 2007/8/14, Leo Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hi, all > > Since Java 1.4.2, RI introduced the package of org.ietf.jgss which > > provides a framework to allows application developers to make use of > > security services like authentication, data integrity and data > > confidentiality from a variety of underlying security mechanisms like > > Kerberos, using a unified API. And RI also provides an default provider, > > sun.security.jgss.SunProvider, which contains the implementation for > such > > interfaces as org.ietf.jgss.GSSManager, org.ietf.jgss.GSSName, > > org.ietf.jgss > > .GSSContext and etc. > > Current Harmony's classlib actually implemented the framework in > > org.ietf.jgss package, while lacks an implementation for JGSS provider. > > And > > the property to denote the provider, "jgss.spi.manager", in harmony's > > java.security file is still a blank. > > Is it possible to get support from other open source project? From > the > > website of bouncycastle, there is no related feature of jgss if I have > > not > > missed something. > > Or else maybe we have to implement it ourselves? > > > > Good luck! > > -- > > Leo Li > > China Software Development Lab, IBM > > > > > > -- > Spark Shen > China Software Development Lab, IBM > -- Leo Li China Software Development Lab, IBM
