Shibboleth Identity Provider V4.1.0 (and various plugins) now available

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/24/21, 1:44 PM, "users on behalf of Jim Fox" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of fox at washington.edu> wrote:

>    One question: It appears that, for now at least, both Rhino and Nashorn 
>    are supported.  Are you recommending Rhino as the preferred engine?  Or do 
>    you expect the project will continue to support both?

We're supporting both but I don't know how we're going to deal with the documentation and examples. They're all Nashorn now so they're probably just going to stay Nashorn.

With Java 17, there are no scripting options anymore, so we have to provide them no matter what. I would say at this point both are at risk projects.

We looked at Graal, but that's so obviously just Oracle being Oracle and trying to pull a bait and switch on Java now that the JDK is opened, that it's hard to see that as a better long term option.

For now we're just hedging and making sure there's a compatible option in Java 17. 

-- Scott