RE: [PEAR-DEV] New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A

> -----Original Message----- > From: LIMBOURG Arnaud [mailto:arnaud.limbourg@cegetel.fr] > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:15 PM > To: Tony Bibbs; Pierre-Alain Joye > Cc: wolff@21st.de; pear-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PEAR-DEV] New Package Proposal: Enterprise A&A > > Catching on the thread (my mail client will most likely start a new thread, > thanks to microsoft, i use outlook ;( > > If I understood the thread correctly both packages aim in the same general > direction. The approach is a bit a bit different in that Enterprise A&A is > designed with web-service in mind whereas live user on provides a general > framework with a container approach. I believe (from current level of > comprehension of both packages) that liveuser is more flexible in that it > does oblige the end-user to use what containers are provided with it but > instead provides the means to easily add almost anything he/she has in > mind. > > Like markus wrote having a web service capability and/or single sign on > requires the work of writing the containers (which is quite a lot of work > I > reckon ;). The idea is to keep the same API so the end-user code does not > have to change. Web-service containers would also be a great addition to > the > package, providing a rather complete set of containers is a good thing > imho. > > This said I think there could be a merging of efforts, dividing when we > could all work together is not the way to go (tm). I have to look at the > a&a > code to see how it is designed, maybe my assumptions were wrong, in which > case i apologize ;) > > Keep up the discussion, the process might take a while :) even though competing packages in PEAR are allowed it would be sort of wacky to have to single sign on packages in pear. However liveuser is flexible enough that it could actually just access A&A through a container. Regards, Lukas