We are proud to announce, that we completed
the integration of our Windows Mobile Cardspace Solution into Higgins as Connector.
So… …what to do now with the
code? ;-)
Mary, are you able to start the IP Process
inside the eclipse-community. As far as we know, we got rid of all external
libs and do only have source code written on our self.
I´m looking forward on working closer
together
Elmar
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Hi Elmar,
See ## inline. Thanks for your response. We look forward to working with you.
On
7/14/09 4:51 AM, "Elmar Eperiesi-Beck" <beck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Paul, Jeesmon,
thank you for your help. We got all the technical information and hat a chance
to review them.
The
Connector API seems to be a very lightweight implementation, so it would make
sense for us to implement a CardSpace connector for the Integration of our
mobile Cardspace Selector.
## Great.
If
the future of Higgins HSS will be HSS and Connector in the same process, we
will develop the connector in that way. Can we use the ConnectorClientApi.h
anyway or is there another API to use?
## Jeesmon is working on checking in some the new stuff (with HSS + Connectors
in the same process), so I think you need to wait for that. Jeesmon can answer
you better than I.
After this we would be happy to support Higgins by sharing our “yet
closed source code” on how to connect a HBX via dll-connection to the HSS
with Higgins.
## This is very interesting as it will solve the problem that you mentioned of
some locked-down enterprises not allowing installation of apps with open
sockets/ports, etc.
## But I have a question. One of the great things about the current design is
that HSS is basically just a pipe that routes ANY message from some plugin
(e.g. HBX) through to the user’s choice of selector. There is no API,
etc. it doesn’t look at the message packages it just gets them from A to
B. So.... The benefit of this is that there’s never a need to change, or
update HSS as new kinds of messages are sent through the pipe. [We are working
on other plugins that send different messages to the selector than just the
usual CardSpace “getToken” message.] My question is do you think
you could design a DLL solution that would also (somehow) work as a
“dumb” pipe?
Our plan is to start developing the solution end of this week – therefore
it should be no problem to get it done until Oct – Higgins 1.1 ;-)
How
can we share our code – should we commit it into a special branche on the
Higgins project? Then we need an account and some login parameters.
## Okay, I need to explain something. The Eclipse process (that Higgins uses)
is very strict. Before new “committers” can get write access to the
SVN they have to create a (small) track record of contributions and then the
other committers have to vote them in. We’ve gone through this process
many times and it is very easy. The first step is to move conversations like
this one (e.g. this email) onto the higgins-dev list. Then, after about
60 days I can make the argument (by pointing to public evidence in bugzilla and
higgins-dev) that <some> Corisecio developer has been contributing code,
patches, ideas, emails, etc to other existing committers (like Jeesmon) to
commit. We have a vote, the developer is voted in and now Corisecio has a
Higgins committer.
## In the meantime ANYBODY can create an account to post to higgins-dev and
anybody can use this account to log in to bugzilla. So that’s the way to
start. See [1]
## I have a request. Would it be possible to have one of your developers join
the weekly higgins-dev call (just this once). The meeting is at noon eastern
time zone (16:00 UTC) on Thursday. We could discuss the HSS thing in person for
5-10 min on the phone with the whole group.
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/getting_started.php
Regards
Elmar
Von: Paul Trevithick [mailto:Paul@xxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Juli 2009 20:53
An: Elmar Eperiesi-Beck
Cc: Brian Walker; Jeesmon Jacob; Mary Ruddy; Bruno Quint
Betreff: Corisecio and the Higgins Selector Switch
Elmar,
I hope you received the technical information from Jeesmon about the Higgins
Selector Switch (see [1] and [2]) that is being developed as part of Higgins
1.1. We are happy to continue supporting you (and along the way improving the
Higgins wiki doc) for this component.
We continue to be interested in pursuing the idea of having Coresecio join us
in working on this component within the Higgins project. It seems to me that
this would give Coresecio a strategic advantage. As we discussed, you could add
the hooks into HSS for a Coresecio connector that would in turn connect over IP
or bluetooth to a mobile phone. We ultimately want to drive (e.g. through the
ICF [5] and OASIS) the concept of a selector switch into Windows (and other
OSes) so having a good open source reference implementation of the interfaces
is important to getting adoption. And we’d like something like the HBX to
be built into browsers.
We plan on releasing Higgins 1.1 in Oct (although it may slip), and having a
solid HSS (and HBX) is very important. You have pointed out to use (and I have
noted here [3]) that there is likely a problem with the architecture of HSS on
Windows. Assuming this is true, then we’d welcome your help in adapting
HSS to be more enterprise-Windows-user compatible. And we’d like to get
it fixed BEFORE Higgins 1.1 is released.
Your thoughts?
Cheers,
--Paul
[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Higgins_Selector_Switch
[2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Components_1.1#Higgins_Selector_Switch_.28HSS.29
[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Higgins_1.1_Plan#Higgins_Selector_Switch_Component
[5] http://informationcard.net
