Announce: Database Backed Storage Service

[Peter Schober]

* Wessel, Keith <kwessel at illinois.edu> [2013-10-03 21:03]:
> I also discovered, though you probably already know this, that when
> using a container-based database connection, aacli.sh obviously
> dumps out an ugly error before returning the attributes. Seems like
> another good reason for a parallel $IDP_HOME/conf dir for use with
> aacli.sh, one with an internal.xml that uses the standard storage
> service instead of the database-backed one if one chooses to take
> the container-managed route.

Unless you run aacli.sh in a container (which even was considered, I
think) obviously any kind of container-managed JDBC won't work.

I haven't considered making a copy of my conf/ replacing any
container-managed JDBC connections with application managed JDBC
connections solely for the aacli case. Instead I stopped using
aacli.sh :)
For someone needing certain Oracle features (like I did for Univie's
IdP, accessing DataGuard or RAC databased) and still wanting a working
aacli that's a idea well worth considering. (Though immediately
concerns about redundant but not identical configiuration come up ;)
-peter