Custom Login Handler - Level of Effort?

[WULMS Alex]

For me it took a few days, in order to get up to speed on Shibboleth and follow the example documented in the wiki. I did not have prior experience with Spring though I do have Java experience, including with developing web applications.

Kind regards,
Alex

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> From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-
> bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Paul Hethmon
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:59 PM
> To: Shib Users
> Subject: Re: Custom Login Handler - Level of Effort?
> 
> I'll just chime in here that a week of effort would be reasonable for
> someone new to Shibboleth. Using one of the existing handlers as a base
> is
> a good way to start. I used the JAAS handler originally and simply
> replaced the JAAS call with my web service call. You can quickly get
> into
> needing more and coding more. Having an understanding of Spring helps a
> lot.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 5/9/12 3:54 PM, "Quint Van Deman" <qvandeman at emergent360.com> wrote:
> 
> >Perfect, thanks Chad.
> >
> >-Quint
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> >On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Chad La Joie <lajoie at shibboleth.net>
> >wrote:
> >> I wrote one for a client, it took me about a day to write and test
> it.
> >> Obviously I have a higher level of experience with the IdP code than
> >> many folks, but I'd say it would take an average Java programmer
> just a
> >> few days to do what you're suggesting.
> >>
> >> On 5/9/12 3:34 PM, Quint Van Deman wrote:
> >>> Shib Users--
> >>>
> >>> I'm currently planning for a project that may necessitate the
> >>> development of a custom login handler, one which validates the
> users
> >>> identity against a remote web service.  For anyone who's gone
> through
> >>> the process before, what was level of effort required to construct
> a
> >>> custom login handler in a rough order of magnitude?  In reviewing
> the
> >>> content on the wiki
> >>>
> >>>(https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPDevExtLogin
> Hand
> >>>ler)
> >>> it doesn't look tremendously difficult, but first hand experience
> is
> >>> always a better gauge.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> -Quint
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