Heh, I wouldn't call it awesome before having seen the source. ;-) I entered it in the bugzilla system as requested.
Cheers, Kenneth On 5/14/05, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken, > > Awesome!! can you please use the bugzilla and upload the sources as > attachment, and in the comments say that you wish to donate this to > Apache? > > thanks, > dims > > On 5/14/05, Kenneth Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mjello, > > > > As some may have noted, I have posted a few questions related to XKMS. > > The reason is that I have been doing a masters thesis, focusing on > > XKMS and developing components to support it. > > > > My thesis is due in a few weeks time, and I am busy writing the > > report, so I guess I won't get much work done on the code until then. > > > > The code uses the org.apache.xml.security packages, and the original > > plan (rather optimistic, it seems) was to have a nice and > > nearly-complete XKMS library ready by now, which would integrate with > > the xml-security library and of such quality, that I could submit it > > as a "proposal for a patch" for the project. It seems I grossly > > underestimated the gorge between my own effectiveness and the size of > > the task, so what exists now is mostly a quite rough prototype > > implementing part of the XKMS functionality. :-) > > > > Current features include: > > *a framework consisting of Java classes reflecting the XML schema for > > XKMS, for building the messages (wrapping the DOM ops in a nicer(?) > > interface) > > *command line client, supporting XKMS requests of the types Locate, > > Validate and Register > > *support for 2-phase requests (manual) :-) > > *servlet based server, with MySQL as back end storage supporting > > Register and Locate requests (Validate is in the pipeline ) > > *support for 2 phase requests > > -server supports storing certificates of X509 type only > > -only HTTP support - no SOAP and SSL yet. :( > > -no support for async. processing yet > > + some maintenance stuff, junit classes, ant build file, javadocs etc. > > > > I plan to at least get the Validate function working, as I am > > currently writing pseuducode for it for the report, and hopefully I > > can fix SOAP support too, in the period between I turn in the paper > > and my exam. > > And, unless the censor decides to kick my face in at the exam, > > traumatizing my relationship to programming, I will probably try and > > finish the project afterwards. :-) > > > > Should anybody be interested, the source is currently available at > > http://www.itu.dk/people/kaj/xkms_src.tgz or > > http://xml.linux.dk/xkms_src.tgz and there is a test instance of the > > service running at http://bea.itu.dk:8080/xkms. > > > > If the thesis gets accepted, I'd like to thank Berin for technical > > assistance and inspiration and Karel Wouters for the idea to the > > project. :-) > > > > --- > > Cheers, > > Kenneth > > > > -- > Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/ > -- --- Cheers, Kenneth
