On 31/01/2012 11:34, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: > Hi Francesco and Simo, > > it looks interesting. > > As an Identity Manager, I wonder if we can't extend it to OSGi, in > addition of JEE.
Hi, I must admit that I am not very deep in OSGi stuff, but there shouldn't be nothing against making Syncope core work in - say ;-) - Karaf, due to its dependencies (see the proposal for more details). We will need an OSGi helping hand for this, of course... Regards. > On 01/31/2012 11:17 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò wrote: >> On 31/01/2012 11:08, Mark Struberg wrote: >>> Hi Simo! >>> >>> Sounds like a really nice project. >> >> Hi Mark, >> first of all, thanks. >> >>> But I wonder if there is some overlap with the Apache Shiro project >>> [1]? >>> [1] http://shiro.apache.org/ >> >> " Apache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework >> that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session >> management." - this means that Shiro is an Access Manager. >> >> Identity Manager's duties are about managing virtual user lifecycle, >> possible spread across multiple heterogeneous systems. This would >> involve: creating / updating / deleting /moving user credentials and >> attributes via LDAP / Active Directory / RDMS and so on. >> >> An Identity Manager - like Syncope - is usually working together with an >> Access Manager in order to provide a complete IAM (=Identity and Access >> Management) solution. >> >> Syncope does not provide yet a connector for interoperating with Shiro, >> but this looks like a nice feature to put somewhere in the roadmap. >> >> Regards. >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: Simone Tripodi<simonetrip...@apache.org> >>>> To: general@incubator.apache.org >>>> Cc: >>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:14 AM >>>> Subject: [DISCUSS] Syncope to Join the Apache Incubator >>>> >>>> Hi all guys, >>>> >>>> I would like to propose Syncope, an Open Source system for managing >>>> identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology, >>>> originally developed by Tirasa, an Italian IT company, to be an Apache >>>> Incubator project. >>>> The goal for Syncope is to become the reference implementation for >>>> Open Source Identity Management, a middleware area in which there are >>>> very few and not yet mature Open Source solutions available. >>>> >>>> Here's a link to the proposal in the Incubator wiki[1] where we >>>> started collecting all needed info. >>>> >>>> As you will note, the list of mentors is in need of some volunteers, >>>> so if you find this interesting, feel free to sign up or let us know >>>> you are interested :). >>>> >>>> Hope to read from you soon, thanks in advance and have a nice day! >>>> All the best, >>>> Simo >>>> >>>> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SyncopeProposal >>>> >>>> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >>>> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >>>> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >>>> http://www.99soft.org/ -- Francesco Chicchiriccò Apache Cocoon Committer and PMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
