Java Reference Implementation Meeting 2010-11-04

Notes from the Java Reference Implementation Group
Date: November 04, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM EST
Attendees: Mark, Pat, Michael, Tim, Greg, Beau

Notes

• Greg
  • at the end of the face-to-face, we wanted to get everything in tho main maven repo
  • all of the pom files have been updated with required pieces for the main maven repo
  • everything is published out (as snapshots) to a holding point (sonatype)
    • if anyone needs those libraries in the community, they can just add the snapshot repo
  • next piece is what kind of release process do we want and when
  • renaming some of the endstates (no code changes, just pom files)
    • four different projects that are not up-to-par with the naming convention
      • nhinAgent change to agent
      • nhindGateways change to gateways
      • nhindClients change to client
      • parent project to parent
    • no complaints around the room, Greg will begin work on that
  • made a maven assembly for pushing out the 'stock' item
  • Jetty vs tomcat discussion
    • Beau sparked a discussion on using Tomcat instead of Jetty in the deployable tar
      • brought up because the xd.war does not work in Jetty
    • Greg found that Tomcat has a smaller footprint than Jetty
    • the team agreed to change to Tomcat
    • Greg will update the assembly
    • Beau and Mark will update the installer and bare-metal documentation
  • Made a small change to the cert generator
    • pkcs12 now named p12
    • going to add some more documentation
    • possibly add some functionality for cert chaining

• Michael
  • Wanted to thank everyone for the support they have provided in getting everything set up and running

• Pat
  • Working on a WS based email approach
    • will push when it gets mature
    • will work on spec based off what was done and modify as necessary
  • a milestone release of James 3 is out
    • provides support for jmx configuration
    • removed telnet support
    • the team decided to go with 2.3.2 for release 1.0
      • will revisit James 3 for a later release
    • not going to push for a web interface for configuration at this point
      • telnet approach is documented
  • going to work on authentication for the configuration-service
    • goal is to have this by release 1.0 sometime next week
  • had some problems with converting and encrypted pkcs12 files
    • Greg pointed to a tool in the baseline which should do what he wants

• Beau
  • Updated the road-to-complete page with things that need completing before release 1.0
  • XD needs a little bit of updating
    • Need to conform to XD spec
      • headers
      • default values
    • Need to support additional document types
      • currently only CCD and CDA for step-up (SMTP->XD*)
    • xd.war is not portable
      • has hard-coded wsdl path that needs to be relative
    • Will talk with Vince to see if he has time to do this
  • Created a set of bare-metal steps for agent HISP deployment model
    • run and tested on multiple EC2 instances
  • Working on testing for XD* / Agent integration
    • Successfully flowed all the way, stepped down to xdm, but failed at the security agent (not encrypted, so dropped)
    • Need to work on a matcher that will allow this to flow through properly
  • Going to email Mark updates for Tomcat vs Jetty

• Mark
  • Going to work on the updates for the installer
  • Worried that his work was going to be a duplicate effort, but the plan was explained and this was no longer a concern
  • Changes to the installer will be reflected in the bare-metal page
  • Concerned about portability of the tarball on windows
    • team agreed to stay with tarball for now, and document tools that could be used for extraction
  • Continue to make the installer platform independent