Posts with keyword: jasigdenver07

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Java Framework Round-Up

Tue Jun 26 10:01:00 2007

Matt Raible of Raible Designs gave this morning's keynote presentation comparing Java Web frameworks (slide - PDF). Matt started off with an overview of the pros and cons of each framework, as he saw them. Java Server Faces or JSF is the Java EE standard. Lots of demand and lots of jobs working with JSF. Initially, its fast and easy to develop with. There are a lot of tools and component libraries are plentiful. The bad news: Tag soup for JSPs--the pages are lots of anything but HTML. JSF doesn't do REST-style Web services well and security can be
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CAS: Simple Authentication

Mon Jun 25 11:47:00 2007

Ken McCrery, from Virginia Tech gave a presentation at JA-SIG on their experience using Central Authentication Service (CAS) to provide single sign-on and single sign-off for their campus systems. CAS is an authentication system originally created by Yale University to provide a trusted way for an application to authenticate a user. It's freely available for download. VT orginally used a home grown system called AuthPortal but their middleware group couldn't keep up with the portal groups requirements. They determined to move to something that was more widely used. They found that CAS 2.0 was easy to deploy Previous AuthPortal
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JA-SIG Keynote on Digital Identity

Mon Jun 25 11:45:00 2007

I gave my keynote presentation on the social and economic impact of digital identity to the JA-SIG 2007 Summer conference. JA=SIG promotes the development and use of open architectures in higher education. In addition to their semiannual conference, they also have several projects that members develop and contribute to. The presentation went pretty well, I thought. There were probably about 150 people in the room. The PDF of my slides is available as well as a screencast demoing CardSpace and another screencast demoing OpenID which I showed in lieu of live demos. Neither is edited nor does either have
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