comments on IDM 1.0-alpha1.

[jeff.yuchang]

I am trying to use the IDM in the guvnor, it looks great, while here are some comments.

1. Currently, the idm module has two implementation out of box, one is db, the other is ldap. I am wondering will it be better if we split it to two modules, say idm-hibernate, idm-ldap etc. so that people can just use what they want.

2. In the db scenario, I have found that we need to have the persistence.xml in the META-INF/ folder, and in the persistence.xml, we have listed a set of implementation classes. I am thinking that can we hidden those implementation classes to users somehow. such as we can have a default persistence.xml(or other name) that contains the inner implementation class in the idm-hibernate module. while for the users, they just need to configure the database connection.

thoughts?

Thanks
Jeff

[bdaw]

"jeff.yuchang" wrote:

1. Currently, the idm module has two implementation out of box, one is db, the other is ldap. I am wondering will it be better if we split it to two modules, say idm-hibernate, idm-ldap etc. so that people can just use what they want.

The ldap implementation doesn't add any additional dependencies itself - it is plain JNDI. So now there would be quite minimal advantage when using plain LDAP scenario (no hibernate dependencies...). Still I think it is a good idea to split the modules for the future. Will benefit if we have more implementations.

2. In the db scenario, I have found that we need to have the persistence.xml in the META-INF/ folder, and in the persistence.xml, we have listed a set of implementation classes. I am thinking that can we hidden those implementation classes to users somehow. such as we can have a default persistence.xml(or other name) that contains the inner implementation class in the idm-hibernate module. while for the users, they just need to configure the database connection.

Good point, also the database connection properties need to be placed outside then. Yesterday I converted hibernateIdentityStoreImpl to use Hibernate SessionFactory instead of JPA stuff and I may switch to hibernate configuration files.

Could you make jiras for those ideas and assign them to me?

[anil.saldhana]

We should have a general discussion on dependencies and also inform whenever we are getting new dependencies.

I think many of the dependencies exist in the JDK (JAXB etc) or provided by the EE environment. Anything else, should be discussed.

Dependencies are interesting as well as critical topic. :)

[jeff.yuchang]

OK, here goes those two jiras:

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBID-45,
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBID-46

Thanks
Jeff