Hello!
It looks like ASF has been selected for GSOC 2015 and I am interested in
pushing this project forward. So, in meantime I'll start writing proposal
and hope this project will be selected to participate in Gsoc program.
Best regards,
Fjodor.

2015-02-10 22:44 GMT+02:00 Arjan Tijms <arjan.ti...@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Mark Thomas-2 [via Tomcat]
> <ml-node+s10n502964...@n6.nabble.com> wrote:
> > If you do look at JBoss keep in mind it is GPL licensed and we need to
> > be very careful that we don't end up with GPL'd code in Tomcat.
>
> That's absolutely true. The code there shouldn't not be copied in any
> way. It's only useful as an example of how a Tomcat Valve can
> integrate with something like JASPIC. As for the JASPIC code there, it
> wouldn't make sense to copy it anyway, since A) it's JBoss specific
> (builds up JBoss principal, calls JBoss security service, etc) and B)
> there are various issues with it (it looks like JBoss pretty much
> rewrote everything from scratch for Undertow, which is completely
> different).
>
> > Personally, I'd look more much more closely at Geronimo.
>
> You're right, and since that one is Apache licensed one can even copy
> from it if needed.
>
> > Keep in mind that part of the goal is to replace the existing
> > authenticators with JASPIC modules. (As suggested on the Servlet EG
> list.)
>
> It's good to have that as part of the goal indeed. Such auth modules
> could even be implemented by a separate (group) of students if needed,
> as they would not necessarily depend on the JASPIC implementation for
> Tomcat. As long as that one is not finished they could test it on any
> existing JASPIC implementation (e.g. the RI, GlassFish).
>
> > I think we all know that feeling - hence why I suggested it for GSoC.
>
> Yeah, I get that, thanks! It's still something that I'd really love to
> do, but with the work for the startup zeef.com, open source projects
> OmniFaces and OmniSecurity, the work for the JSF EG and perhaps soon
> for the security EG, there is not always much time left. I had this on
> my sketchy todo list for ~end of this month, but I'll see what happens
> with the GSoC project now ;)
>
> Kind regards,
> Arjan
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Mark
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