Re: [higgins-dev] Getting started with IdAS?

["Marc Boorshtein" <mboorshtein@xxxxxxxxx>]

> #1 was a topic of discussion a couple days ago on the irc or some form of IM
> as well.  It was suggested that Tom put together instructions on how to
> install/configure the JNDI context provider.  I think it will show up here
> soon
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JNDI_Context_Provider

Ok, I'll check it out once it's done

> For #2, there are unit tests for the JNDI CP, but I don't think there's much
> beyond that (we should probably put out some sample code).  If you want to
> do something more complex, you could deploy the Token Service, backed by the
> JNDI CP which is backed by an LDAP server.

the token service...great.Is that a download yet?  I only saw the
idas.jar under downloads

> At least for #1, to get started you can build IdAS and the JNDI CP
> (instructions here and here)

Ok, I've got these setup.  One question (might be unrelated).  Is the
"open" method on the context provider supposed to be an authentication
method?  It appears to be based on the "sample" in the jndi "dev"
package.

Thanks
Marc