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[wtp-incubator-dev] XML Security Proposal
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There is a new proposal ready for WTP review and consideration
(following the process outlined by the Eclipse Development process).
The XML-Security Plugin project.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/XML_Security_Tools_Proposal
Background information:
XML is available almost everywhere nowadays. As configuration files, for
data exchange, in XML enabled databases, web services and many more. And
a lot of these applications and services do not secure their XML
documents: neither encryption nor digital signatures are applied. Or
standard transport security like https is used. This destroys the
advantages of XML and prevents parsing.
XML Security provides many advantages: the XML structure of the XML
document remains intact, independent of the applied signature or
encryption (or both). Arbitrary elements or element content can be
secured, with different keys if desired. XML Security provides
end-to-end-security, applying security directly to the message
(information), not to the transport.
The XML Security Tools will show developers, how to secure XML documents
and enable them to use these security features in their own environment.
The intention of the tool is to spread the use of XML Security and to
show users the power of the W3C recommendations.
The proposal is being made by Dominik Schadow, and he would be the
project lead as well as a committer on the project. He is the sole
maintainer of the code currently. I would also be willing to
contribute time to the project, and the company I work for already
adopts his current open source plugin in our eclipse based product.
This project would be another incubating project like the XSL Tools
project. There is a bugzilla open for this proposal as well.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=243106
Please provide feedback either here or in the bugzilla bug.
Dave
