Shibboleth Developer's Meeting, September 6, 2013

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• New plugin abstractions for MetadataResolver itself
• MetadataFilter impl which does 1 treewalk and takes plugins similar to #1
• Just implement each as a MetadataFilter unto itself, so each does own treewalk.  Advantage is no new abstractions.

Refactored MetadataCredentialResolver to use new credential caching mechanism based on XMLObject#getObjectMetadata class-to-instance multimap.

Refactored HTTP metadata resolvers to use Apache HttpClient v4.  Some TODO's remaining around capabilities differences to v3 client.

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Completed first batch of authentication work, documented at Authentication and Session Management

• Context design
• Configuration and selection of flows
• SSO via active results pulled from session (session itself is TBD)
• Implemented and tested flows for IP authn, asserted RemoteUser or header, and form/basic-auth to JAAS
• Successful integration of nested subflows for Authentication into MVC profile testbed
• Explored error handling a bit
• Handling of AuthnContext, including non-exact matching

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