Nifty. I'll have to check this out. One of the things I had been looking to do was set up one of our internal T5 webapps to auth against our Active Directory instance. I was going to look into using Atlassian Crowd for it, but if your code makes it simple enough, that would be awesome.
-- Kevin On 2/7/08 6:01 AM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Francois Armand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm very happy (and glad) to announce a first working version of our > InterLDAP project. > > =========== Project info ============ > The mail is growing long, so there are the URL, description follows : > > Main site : http://interldap.org > > Demo site : http://wui.demo.interldap.org/wui-interldapDemo/login with > for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] / efranck > and demo howto : > http://federid.objectweb.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Demonstration (part of > FederID, identity federation project that implements Liberty Alliance > protocol) > > The project is OpenSource (AGPLv3, don't troll on that, its our company > policy) > The svn of the project : > http://forge.objectweb.org/plugins/scmsvn/index.php?group_id=162 > > You should be able, if the Saturn - Pluto - Aldebaran alignment is > good, to checkout the project and give it a try with mvn jetty:run. > Just try : > # svn co > svn://svn.forge.objectweb.org/svnroot/interldap/interldap-wui-webapp/trunk/ > interldap-wui-webapp > # cd interldap-wui-webapp; mvn jetty:run. > It should build the project, get the dependencies, launch and embedded > OpenDS as LDAP directory. After what, you only have to go to > localhost:8080 and log with [EMAIL PROTECTED] / secret. If OW2 and > Maven are in good mood. > ================================ > > =========== Presentation ============ > > InterLDAP if a set of tools whose goals are to manage electronic > identities thanks to LDAP directories. > > One of the big tools of the set is a web interface to manage identities > in an LDAP directory, kind of what Calendra does. > Actually, the web interface have to deal with 4 kinds of topic : > - make basic CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) operations on LDAP > with an understandable interface for non-tech users, what suppose to : > * be able to generate really adaptable forms, because LDAP entries > have no predefine structure like what you have in a DB ; > * be able to add a lot of meta information around LDAP schema to show > understandable information ; > - give to non LDAP-admin the possibility to manage the CRUD presentation > (manage behavior of forms and metadatas), for example : > * show / disable fields ; > * make field multivaluated ; > * make fields mandatory ; > * edit meta information (fields names, info text, order, etc) > * etc > - have the ability to define "business" rules link to these operation > (entries post processing, etc) > - define a powerful authorization system to enable rigths delegation, > complex hierarchy management, etc. so that CRUD operations are *really* > fine grained (down to the field level of entries, and may be different > for each user). > > So, why did I send a mail to the Tapestry list (as you can see, I'm very > good to set up an unsustainable suspense...) > We use T5 to build this web user interface (tada ! What a surprise !), > and all the project is open source, so I think it's a rather > non-standard and non trivial software implementation using Tapestry 5. > > More precisely, one of the big difficulties of this kind of tool is the > genericity it has to reach in the business layer : each company has its > own hierarchy, business organization, history and exceptional cases to > this complex set of rules. To achieve it, the project is broken in > several modules, the top leveled of them being a T5 components framework > that enable to build specific identity management software, tailored for > the client. And there is a first working implementation for a client. > > The project is a "version 0", it lacks *a lot* of things, and especially > a lot English documentation (actually, almost everything is in French > :/), polishing (component generalization, behavior homogenization, etc), > and of course any help would be much appreciated. > > > Ok, now that I talk about all the business buzzwords, what's the > interesting stuff, from a T5 point of view ? > > 1/ A generic component framework and a specialized instantiation for the > demo app > that may be intersting to see how T5 facilitate my life with it's IoC / > configuration possibilities > > 2/ Composed and adaptable forms > I did a lot of work around complex, composed and adaptable form. The > center point of the application is editing entries whose structure is > not predefine, a kind of specialized beanEditForm for LdapEntries. It as > the same kind of possibilities (dynamically build, adaptable editors, > etc) and some other nice feature. For example, Ldap entries may be > multivaluated, so one the component is a "listeditor" that can edit List > of object (edit each object, add new objects, remove object of the > list). This component is also used to build composed search criterium > (on the model of the search in thunderbird, for example). > > 3/ A cool use of Tapestry implementation of strategy and pipeline > pattern to decide what kind of post-processing an entry is subject to, > and then process the pipeline of actions. The system is on the > framework, specific configurations are contributed by implementation > thanks to T5-ioc ; > > 4/ A... certainly a score of other things. > > as I said, the project is open source, and we will be really glad to > welcome new users or contributors. > Any comments or question will be welcome ! > You may contact me on the Tapestry chan #tapestry on freenode (I'm > fanf), or by mail. > > Have a nice day, and a great Thanks to Tapestry 5 developers for this > great framework. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
