SWF / MVC write-up

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/4/13 10:06 AM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:

>Could you tar.gz your local testbed and upload to shibboleth.net ?

Yes, current state anyway.

>We could move the testbed to svn.shibboleth.net or maybe Brent could
>open his up somehow, but I was hoping to make idp-distribution
>worthwhile for testing. Let me know which you prefer.

I just think we need something, and it definitely needs to be usable like
Brent's is, maven jetty:run with the web context loaded from the project
tree directly.

It may be more practical right now to treat this not as a project to
create the eventual distribution, but a kind of example of what the
eventual distribution might generate.

>At some point I need a refresher conversation on serialization.

The fundamental issue is the context tree, as I just responded to Marvin.

But I should note that we don't have the freedom to impose Serializability
on things. That's really the essence of the matter: can we put things into
the context tree we don't control? Right now we can. If we Serialize, we
can't (I don't think requiring creation of external serialization code any
time something new is needed is practical).

Related to this, we can't OOB put objects into view-scope that aren't
Serializable (again unless we provide our own code to do that). But that I
was able to come up with a possible work-around for.

>It seems reasonable to not support flow snapshots for now, with a
>custom FlowExecutionRepository as a finite work item to provide such
>support. Do you want me to spend time investigating that effort ?

I think we obviously need to discuss and reinforce or change the original
design choice, and then decide what we need to build as a result.

-- Scott