Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor - LDAP?

2005-07-15 Thread Laurie Harper
Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Not sure I have an answer for that :) My guess would be because of the first letter in the acronynm: Lightweight. Otherwise, your question seems reasonable to me. Yep, the 'lightweight' is certainly a key factor. LDAP is optimized toward high read volume, low write

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor - LDAP?

2005-07-15 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Not sure I have an answer for that :) My guess would be because of the first letter in the acronynm: Lightweight. Otherwise, your question seems reasonable to me. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Fri, July 15, 2005 6:41 am

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor - LDAP?

2005-07-15 Thread Larry Meadors
LDAP is commonly used for security systems (for example: M$ Active Directory and Novell's NDS are both LDAP implementations), and so using them for applications (instead of a database) lets you leverage existing security settings so you do not have to duplicate them. Larry On 7/15/05, Adam Hardy

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor - LDAP?

2005-07-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Frank W. Zammetti on 14/07/05 17:39, wrote: We have completely externalized security from all our applications and have built a fairly robust Security Framework, on top of J2EE security and LDAP. Further, we are now taking customization and adding it in. Currently, once a user is authenticated

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-14 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
As far as security and authorization goes, where I work we very much view it as, I suppose, a ring around the Olympic rings... perhaps a 100m track? :) We have completely externalized security from all our applications and have built a fairly robust Security Framework, on top of J2EE security and

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-14 Thread Borislav Sabev
Martin Gainty wrote: Boris- I see Security as implemented by RingBearer Frodo in Lord of the Rings The caretaker of the ring travels thru all domains and access to the other dimension (portal which contains final results) regardless of any domain he travels thru Begreife? Martin- Since I'm

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-14 Thread Ted Husted
On 7/14/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One way to address customization is to build the notion of a user > profile into the application. The user profile can contain the > information each ring might require to customize the user experience. Which to further the olympics metaphor, wou

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-14 Thread Ted Husted
On 7/14/05, Borislav Sabev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fully agree here, that's why I consider Authorization as a ring that > intersect all other rings, and this means it depend on each of them. > But it fact better metaphor for it is that is a small ring inside every > other ring, i.e. not seen

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-14 Thread Borislav Sabev
Leon Rosenberg wrote: ---Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Borislav Sabev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 18:54 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor How do you classify Security and Authorization issues in this metaphor? In my

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-13 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Borislav Sabev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 18:54 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor > > How do you classify Security and Authorization issues in this &

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-13 Thread Leon Rosenberg
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Borislav Sabev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 18:54 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor > > How do you classify Security and Authorization issues in this &

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-13 Thread Ted Husted
On 7/13/05, Borislav Sabev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you classify Security and Authorization issues in this metaphor? > > In my current project I have troubles since code that is related somehow > to Authorization is spread over all "rings. Still it's difficult to me > to have a clear un

Re: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-13 Thread Martin Gainty
: "Borislav Sabev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:54 PM Subject: [OT] olipmic rings metaphor Ted Husted wrote: In my own work, I tend to think of an enterprise-grade application as a set of overlapping rin

[OT] olipmic rings metaphor

2005-07-13 Thread Borislav Sabev
Ted Husted wrote: In my own work, I tend to think of an enterprise-grade application as a set of overlapping rings, like the Olympics logo. * http://www.olympic.org/ In the Blue ring live the view members, like custom tags or UI components, and the HTTP request and response objects. This is th