Higgins
dev call – June 25, 2009
Attendees
* Tom
Carroll - Azigo
*
Hank Mauldin - Cisco
*
Mary Ruddy - Meristic
* Markus
Sabedello – Harvard Law Lab
*
Brian Walker - Azigo
*
Alexander Yuhimenko - Azigo
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Agenda
- [Mary] For the first time in
recent memory, another Eclipse project was still talking (about achieving
its Galileo release) when it was time to start the Higgins call on the
Eclipse call bridge. My apologies for any confusion.
1.
[Brian] 1.1M7 targeted for July 24
- M7
status
- Discuss
the two different approaches to authentication used on the I-Card Service
Web App vs. the CardSynch Web App endpoints. Alexander is updating some
documentation for this.
- See
[1]
- [Brian]
First topic is the M7 status. I updated the Wiki page. Moved the target
end date to the third week in July. Expect to have the target download
page draft middle of next week. We also have an engineer working on each
of the builds. For the GTK selector, Windows version, have built a
connector for it, etc. Most of that work has been completed. Still
working on porting HSS to OSX and Linux. The long lead item is getting
some of the Selector builds populated into the solutions download page
when it is done.
- [Brian]
Alexander has documented some of the work on two different approaches to
authentication used on the I-Card Service Web App vs. the CardSynch Web
App endpoints. He sent out a link this morning [2].
- [Alex]
Alexander provided a summary of the two authentication methods supported
that he has documented on the wiki [2].
- [Brian]
Want to get feedback on this from the dev list. Please review
Alexander’s link and provide comments.
2.
[Markus] iPhone I-Card Selector
- The iPhone I-Card Selector has
been improved to support a new selector invocation mechanism. This new
version works on any iPhone / iPod touch and will be able to be simply
installed from the App Store. The application itself can be launched
either from the iPhone main screen (if a user wants to see / manage their
cards), or from the MobileSafari browser (if a website requests a card).
- The wiki page has been updated
accordingly: [3]
- [Markus] I created a new
version of the selector. I submitted it to the official app store process.
It should be in the app store in 1 or 2 weeks. The new version is quite
different from the previous one. The previous one required a browser
plug-in (which required jail break). The new version will be very easy to
install. You just down load it from the app store like any app. This
Selector doesn’t use the traditional selector invocation method. The
new version uses an HTML link rather than an object tag. It should be
easy to map the object tag to the HTML link in the RP.
- [Mary] So you are saying that
you need to modify the RP?
- [Markus] Yes. The RP needs to
support this special invocation method. However, the piece of the RP where
it receives the token is the same. That does not need to be changed. Just
need to make a slight tweak to the way the iPhone selector is invoked.
The RP needs to contain one of these special links. I updated the wiki
page. It documents this new method for invoking the Selector and has some
screen shots.
- [Mary] Great. Let us know when
it is officially in the app store so that we can publicize this
accomplishment.
- [Markus] Yes, I will send a
notice to the list
- [Mary] And I will echo it on
the Higgins-announce list.
- [Markus] There are two demo RPs
that support this Selector, so you can try it and see how it works.
- [Mary] Cool.
- [Markus] There is one
application that you can download. It works as a Selector and it also
works as an i-card manager. So you can see the values on your cards, just
like the traditional card manager. It can operate in two modes.
- [Mary] And this is also on the
wiki now?
- [Markus] Yes.
- [Brian] Paul was showing it
yesterday. It is pretty cool.
- [Mary] What will it be called
in the app store?
- [Markus] I-Card Selector.
- [Mary] This is wonderful work.
It is really appreciated.
3. [Mary]
Updated Team Page [4]
- [Mary] – There have been
a lot of organizational changes to the Higgins team in the last few
months. We’ve updated the team page in the staging area [4] to
reflect the changes. If anyone has any changes they want made to their
affiliation, let me know. Then we will publish it.
- [Mary] Any other topics for
today?
- [Mary] Thank you all. See you
next time.
[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Higgins_1.1M7
[2]
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Authentication_Icard_Server_WebApp_vs_CardSynch_Web_App
[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/IPhone_Selector_1.1
[4]
http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/ver2/team-leaders.php
