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When are we doing this? Work has started in 2022 in earnest but is still in the assessment stagebut has accelerated into actual development work in 2024 after Board approval of our multi-year roadmap that includes this work.
Topics
Brain dump of issues with the current code and brainstorming some of the problem space
Draft material on the proposed remoting protocol and conventions for communication with the Java-based service/hub
Notes on the design of the new service and some of the adaptations needed to accomodate existing function
Walk through of many of the various settings and their future
“Shower thoughts” on some of the design problems so I don’t lose track of them.
Notes about work in progress pending moving to Jira for work tracking.
Source Code
The new Java “service” that will replacing the existing dependencies is in the java-plugin-shibd.git repository with the unwieldy placeholder name of Shibboleth SP Service.
The existing cpp-sp.git repository will continue to exist and work will be done on a branch for now. I suspect we may start over to produce the new agents by cloning the old repo.
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