Talking only about the technology frameworks here.... 1. Hibernate: the obvious choice would to swap it with OFBiz Entity Engine, since they do very similar things, and the basic ideas are very similar. I have never used the EE outside of OFBiz but it must be doable as Atlassian JIRA which must have to be hard as f*ck, uses the EE as its persistence engine.
2. Spring: I have been using Spring plus OFBiz together for while, without problems. I load the ApplicationContext from my webapp. I do LESS THINGS with Spring, as OFBiz provides many of them (ex. declarative caching, Transaction mgt). But I reckon it still adds value. If you ported authsum to run as an optional module in the hot-deploy directory, (the mode used by OpenTAPS modules), then the core OFBiz itself has no dependency on Spring. People who want authsum funcionality could, for instance, simply... a. Stick a configured authsum module into hot-deploy b. Alter a few tags in some central OFBiz config file to point its security system at authsum. c. Restart. 3. Lucene. No experience here. Whatever, you probably WOULD need to refactor some of the core OFBiz security stuff to make it a bit more pluggable, but I don't think this would be a huge job. cameron ----- Original Message ---- From: spamsucks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]; Jacques Le Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 20 December, 2006 4:25:23 PM Subject: Re: Authorization and SSO server for ofbiz offer Is springframework a problem? I could switch out hibernate to something else, since most of the fun is in lucene. Do you understand what authsum could bring to ofbiz? It could tell you what customers you can place an order on behalf of in a split second. Phillip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:08 AM Subject: Re: Authorization and SSO server for ofbiz offer > Phillip, > > Just about licence : only Hibernate is really a problem since it's LGPL > licenced > > BTW you may consider using Entity Engine in place of > Hibernate/Spring/Tapestry because I can't see how all that would fit in > OFBiz > :o) > > It's up to you... > > Jacques > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phillip Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:57 AM > Subject: Authorization and SSO server for ofbiz offer > > >> Hi, >> My name is Phillip Rhodes, and I have been a java developer since '96, >> and have integrated apps with Oracle 11i ERP systems, Tibco, Vertex, sso >> and all kinds of interesting projects... >> >> I have a project called "authsum" , think of it as "sum of >> authorizations" >> http://www.authsum.org/ >> >> Good summary architecture diagram: >> http://www.authsum.org/overview/index.html >> >> In summary, it's a SSO/Identity server. It communicates with client >> applications via a JDBC or Web services api to figure out what >> authorizations a user has. The authorizations are stored in a lucene >> index, so it's fast (given how enterprises can have complicated >> group/role structures). >> >> Anyway, just wanted to know if it would be possible to bolt this into >> ofbiz. I would be willing to give the authsum code the same license >> (apache). Unfortunately, it uses hibernate/spring/tapestry (open source >> products) . >> >> It would also "complicate things" because it consists of 4 different >> webapps that can be run in a distributed environment. But it also has a >> SSO so that it could provide SSO across ofbiz/registration/user >> admin/CMS/etc... >> >> Just putting a feeler out. >> Phillip >> > ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail – Tired of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
