OpenSAML 3.x documentation?

[Steve Sobol - Lobos Studios]

Ooooh, ok.

Thank you for your clarification.

Can you recommend an implementation I can use on the client side? I'm 
using Gluu (which implements Shibboleth) on the server side.



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------ Original Message ------
From: "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu>
To: "Shib Users" <users at shibboleth.net>
Sent: 6/21/2016 9:12:33 AM
Subject: RE: OpenSAML 3.x documentation?

>>  But when I go to the Shibboleth homepage, click Products | 
>>OpenSAML-Java
>>  and click the Configuration link -- or the Download and Install link 
>>-- I get docs
>>  for 2.x, not 3.x.
>
>The website is a disaster, but I will take a look at what's there. In 
>any case, the wiki is the only reliable place to be looking for 
>anything. There is a dedicated wiki space for the 3.x library but it is 
>not really documentation at present, and I don't see that changing any 
>time soon.
>
>>  3.x and 2.x are both available via the Maven repository, and it looks 
>>like 3.x
>>  has been around for a while. So I thought I needed to use 3.x. But 
>>I'm new to
>>  SAML and SSO, and although I am a quick study, good documentation is
>>  essential :)
>
>OpenSAML is not really a fully documented library, and we have no 
>resources to change that. It is a by-product of the Shibboleth Project 
>made available as-is and most people should be using existing SAML 
>implementations, not building them. We strongly discourage that.
>
>If you're new to SAML, stopping and reconsidering your course here is 
>your best choice.
>
>>  So do I use 2.x or 3.x, and if I am expected to use 3.x, where is the
>>  documentation?
>
>In effect, there really is none. The documentation for 2.x can be 
>applied in many significant respects, but not all, and even that 
>documentation assumes an experienced XML and SAML developer.
>
>The javadocs for 3.x are published with the Shibboleth documentation, 
>however [1]. And that's about all there is.
>
>Any further discussion should be on our dev list, that's the only 
>support forum we provide for OpenSAML.
>
>-- Scott
>
>[1] https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/Configuration
>
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