Shibboleth Developer's Meeting, December 20, 2013

Attendees:

Dial-in attendee identification.

Next call is next Friday. Any reason not to meet ?

60 to 90 minute call window.

Brent

Daniel

Ian

I'd like to get decisions on:

Requirement for Servlet 3.0 in our V3 stack.
- Cleanest option is to just say yes. This would restrict deployment platforms for the V3 IdP.
- It might be possible to fudge it somehow, though. How much effort do we think that is worth?
- Final option would be revisit the decision to move to Spring Framework 4 and stick with Spring Framework 3 for the life of IdP V3, but I don't think we want to do that.
Use of @Override. I haven't heard any objections to it on the list, but let's be clear about what we want to do; some selection or all of the following:
- Change (reverse) the recommendation for the "insert @Override in new code" option in Eclipse?
- Add a code style recommendation to include @Override where appropriate?
- Should we do any work on any of the old code, or leave it to individual discretion?
- Should we use Checkstyle's MissingOverride check: "Verifies that the java.lang.Override annotation is present when the {@inheritDoc} javadoc tag is present."
  - Would probably involve quite a lot of warnings.
  - Note that it is a purely textual check; Checkstyle doesn't seem to know when a method actually does override.
- There also appears to be a Java compiler preference in Eclipse which defaults to ignoring missing @Override which we could set globally.

Rod

Scott

Tom

Other

2013-12-20