[OpenID] ANN: OpenID4Java 0.9.4 - OpenID draft 12 and AX draft 7 support

[Johnny Bufu]

On 30-Sep-07, at 4:47 AM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:

> How about providing a complete client and server implementation  
> with all the whistle and bells which could be configured in a  
> config or from DB? I could imagine that once something installable  
> would be available, it actually would be used much more (including  
> sql scripts etc). I could also imagine, to provide some hooks for  
> popular forums and blogs, i.e. redirect authentication to the  
> OpenID4Java client and post the result back...
>
> Specially the availability of extensions like Attribute Exchange  
> could improve the (security) status of OpenID further, meaning that  
> actual implementations are using it.

There are a few things to play with:

- samples/simple-openid/ : A simple JSP-only implementation, for  
someone who wants to see openid4java in action quicly, and/or test  
against other implementations.

- samples/demorp/ : A full-blown, deployable RP. Pretty much all the  
configuration options allowed by the library can easily be tweaked in  
the Spring configuration files under WEB-INF.


An OP with all the bells and whistles is not that easy to do;  
requirements and configuration can vary greatly, so a reference  
implementation is not that straight-forward to build. There are  
however a couple initiatives I know of:

Sutra Zhou is building an OP:
	http://code.google.com/p/openid-server/

David Fuelling was also writing working on fully featured OP and  
planned to put under the openid4java project when complete; not sure  
where he's at.


Hope this helps,
Johnny