With 600 million users and counting, it's the new Internet. Yes, I'm talking about Facebook. Whether you love it or hate it, these days you have to have a Facebook strategy. Every other site is doing Facebook, Twitter and Google integrations and why not, your fledgling little website wouldn't need more than 1/1000th of their users to make it a success. So why is that everybody needs to suffer on their own through implementing various versions of Oauth & other open authorization standards? With that suffering in mind, tynamo-federatedaccounts, a module for supporting remote authentication and merged (federated) authorization, was born.
I've been using various versions of more specialized implementations of the same concept before, but tynamo-federatedaccounts is the first attempt at generalizing Oauth & similar work flows to an easy-to-use package. The module is based on Tynamo's tapestry-security, a stable and well-maintained security package based on Apache Shiro for Tapestry5 applications. At this point, I'm looking for early user feedback for the current implementation and APIs. I've put together a simple, live demonstration running at http://tynamo-federatedaccounts.tynamo.org/ and documentation is available at http://tynamo.org/tynamo-federatedaccounts+guide. The module was pre-announced earlier on Tynamo users list. Here's what Alejandro (the co-founder of Tynamo) had to say about it: "On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Alejandro Scandroli <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if we should release this module, It's so easy to use > that's not fair for people that suffered the Facebook nightmare. > I want people to suffer as I DID!!!. Damn it Kalle!! Excellent work! :) > > In the next couple of days I would be testing the extension points. I > want to try google oauth. > > Cheers. > Alejandro." Happy hacking, Tynamo Team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
