Hi David, Not sure when the first release will be out - it is up to how fast the the community helps contribute to resolve Jira issues :) My gut feeling is that we're still probably 2 to 3 months out before our first official 'alpha' release.
General project status information can be found on Apache's clutch page[1]. Just look for Shiro's row. Currently Shiro does not have the concept of a central management server/console. Each application has to configure its own realm(s) to interact with one or more enterprise data sources (RDBMS, LDAP, etc). But even with a central management system, you'd still have to wire each application individually to 'point' to this central system - I don't know how to get around that individual wiring problem. Give Shiro a try and feel free to ask questions on the user list for general usage questions and on the dev list for framework internal development questions. You'll find that people generally give good answers to questions, even if it might take a day or two ;) Cheers, Les [1] http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:18 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > Shiro really looks promising for the task at hand here. > Just a few questions: > -When do you think the 1st official Apache Shiro release will be out? > -How many [active] committers are there? > -In an enterprise setting (e.g. many applications deployed) - will each and > every appliation have to access the backend realm (I'm thinking of > authenticating agains LDAP, and having the roles in JDBC) - or can this be > centralized in some way? I'm not too fond of having to wire up each > application - it would be nice to have this centralized, and let the > applicatoins go through this centralized service, which I imagine would > require less configuration for each app/client. > > TIA > > > -- > David J. M. Karlsen - +47 90 68 22 43 > http://www.davidkarlsen.com > http://mp3.davidkarlsen.com >
