Hi Cathy,
I want to point out that everything I need to implement for our purposes doesn't need to be contributed back to Apache. If you don't wish to see
"don't wish to see" is a bit more than I intended to express. I don't think that the *HC* *repository* is the right place for such code. If it's OK for you and IBM, you could for example attach that part of the code to a JIRA issue, and we would point interested parties there. We could also run the code through the IP clearance, so that other projects at Apache can use it without further ado. In particular, I assume that Harmony[1] could make good use of such a contribution. They have to deal with native and platform specific code anyway, so that is not an additional burden to them. Some IBMers are also active there. [1] http://harmony.apache.org/
the integrated Windows authentication, that can be something that I wrapper into my own implementation. In that case, I would just contribute an NTLMv2 implementation in pure Java that would require a username, password, and domain to be entered.
That seems to be the best strategy to go forward. What you will probably need is a plugin point where a hash is computed from the username/password/domain data. Windows will not give you the password in clear text, you'll only get the precomputed hash (iirc). So the API needs to be callable with actual credentials, in which case the hash is computed from the data. And it needs to be callable without credentials, in which case the hash is obtained through a native call. We can help you with the API design, but I won't be able to contribute code in this area since I had a look at the SUN Java code for NTLM authentication a few years ago. That doesn't match the clean room requirements.
IBM is usually pretty good about contributing back to open source.
Yes, processes obviously have improved a lot since I last had to do with them. At the time, there was nothing short of starting a new project worth several person-years that would have justified the effort of getting the approval to contribute anything at all :-) cheers, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
