on 11/7/2000 7:59 AM, "Gerd Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to integrate Prowler
> (http://www.infozone-group.org/projects_main.html)
> with Turbine/Jetspeed. Prowler is an XML-based transaction-safe content
> managment framework. At the moment we use only Cocoon for the web-frontend.
> But we'd like to have Turbine/Jetspeed to build a personalized web-protal.
Wow...this seems to be the big thing to do for 2000.
> The overall goal of Infozone is to create an EIP based on open source
> technolgies. The raw picture might be as follows:
>
> +---------+ +----------+ +---------+
> | Cocoon | | Jetspeed | | Turbine |
> | | +----------+ | |
> | +-----+ +-----+ |
> | | | |
> +---------------+ +---------------+
> +----------------------------------+
> | Prowler |
> +----------------------------------+
> +----------------------------------+
> | data source (databases, app |
> | servers, mail boxes, etc.) |
> +----------------------------------+
I don't think your picture is entirely accurate, but whatever.
> One important point is the user management (UM). The UM of Prowler is
> pluggable
> but the interface is very simple (only users and groups). I'd like to have
> only
> one user manager for all parties - Jetspeed, Turbine and Prowler. As a common
> interface I thought of JAAS (published by Sun), also because of the tight
> integration with the Java security mechanims. How much differs the UM of
> Turbine from this specification ?
Turbine's implementation is its own. It is all interface based and can be
implemented however you wish. By default, Turbine will have an
implementation for a database back end as well as a LDAP back end. This is
being completely re-done right now.
<http://java.apache.org/turbine/branches.html>
Personally, I see absolutely no need to tie myself to JAAS.
> Also I saw that Turbine's UM heavly depends on SQL but I'd like to use ozone
> (http://www.ozone-db.org) - an OODBMS - to store the UM informations. As far
> as
> I could see from the API docs this is not possible yet - or am I wrong?
You are wrong. It is entirely interface based and you can provide any
implementation you want on the back end.
> Is there any way to separate the UM interface of Turbine clearly from the
> underlying database ?
Of course.
> I have to admit that I'm not yet very familar with Turbine. What I've written
> here is based on my first impressions that I've got while reading the docs.
> I would be grateful for any hints.
Read the source code.
-jon
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