more work on idp-distribution

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/23/13 1:59 PM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

>There is a silly PoC flow which prints "ok" via Velocity for the
>idp/profile/Status URL.

Oddly, it had escaped my notice (via me not bothering to look) that
Velocity could be used as the renderer for Spring MVC. I probably
understand part of something you were asking about now.

I don't fully understand how views work yet, but I've been wondering if
the "display login form" action is supposed to be a view or not. I think
it's not, in the current form, because it's just directly rendering a
Velocity page manually. And I'm not sure I think that's wrong. I think we
should be able to support actual view-states in the flows, but I'm not
sure I think we should require that much machinery to grok just to get a
simple page displayed.

Obviously the consent stuff might be a different story.

Anyway, this will start to get tested now that I'm working on the flow in
the testbed.

-- Scott