Sunburned Surveyor wrote: Hi,
> Andreas wrote: "sure, but my point is that it's duplicated > functionality. When a user is > updated/added/deleted in the system, do you take care to do the same for the > OpenJUMP-users?" > > Alas my friend! I think we have identified an unresolvable trade-off. > > On the one hand, if we tap into the operating system's framework for > managing users we will likely loose are ability to be truly > cross-platform. > > On the other hand, if we design an independent (and cross-platform) > solution to user management just for OpenJUMP we loose the > synchronization with the operating systems users. yes, that pretty much nails it ;-) > I'm not sure if there is a solution that addresses both of these > issues, nor am I sure which of the techniques described above is the > one to pursue. There may not be one technique that is "better" than > the other. > > However, if you distribute a flavor of OpenJUMP for just one operating > system, you might implement a solution that doesn't need to be > cross-platform. I think this would be fairly easy to do with a plug-in > or two. Agreed. As long as there will be no centralized solution which everyone is forced to use, I'll be happy as well. Best regards, Andreas -- l a t / l o n GmbH Aennchenstrasse 19 53177 Bonn, Germany phone ++49 +228 18496-12 fax ++49 +228 1849629 http://www.lat-lon.de http://www.deegree.org ------------------------------------------------------- On June 17 is deegree day - Am 17. Juni ist deegree day http://deegree.org/deegreeday
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