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

I'll have to synch up with the Live User semantics at some point. The Enterprise A&A system is pretty flexible. There is the concept of a provider (i.e. any backend used for A&A such as SQL DB's or LDAP) and they can be added on the fly. Apps have a choice of using an existing provider or implementing their own...it's up to them. However, the power of the system is leveraging single credential sets (i.e. use of as few providers as possible). I'm not sure how 'container' is meant in Live User. Does my A&A provider = Live User Container? --Tony On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, LIMBOURG Arnaud wrote: > 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 :) > > Arnaud. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------| Tony Bibbs | "I guess you have to remember that those who don't | tony@tonybibbs.com | hunt or fish often see those of us who do as | | harmlessly strange and sort of amusing. When you | | think about it, that might be a fair assessment." | | --Unknown | ------------------------------------------------------------------------|