[xwiki-devs] cert creation component

Hi, Having got Xwiki to produce RDFa (very easy), and having switched of Twitter to allow me to concentrate,I am now working on allowing a user to click a button in his profile, and have it create a foaf+ssl certificate (which is just a normal certificate, but with a URL in the subject alternative name). The code for this is very simple: http://github.com/harbulot/keygenapp/blob/master/samplewebapp/src/main/java… (with a few lines of tweaks required to add the certificate information to the profile page). What happens is that a <keygen> XML element is added to a <form> element in the user's profile page. This forces the browser (Safari, Firefox, Opera) to create a <public, private> key pair and send the public part to the servlet referred to above (MiniCaServlet). That servlet creates a certificate and sends it back to an invisible iframe. The browser then adds that cert to the keystore (this is done automatically, it's part of browser behavior). So to move this code to XWiki, I understand I should create a component. I read about it here: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingComponents and it makes sense. From a component I can get the user, and from that I can get his profile page, and then I can add the public key information to his profile (I wrote a RSAKeyClass in Xwiki to do this). The component should finally send the newly generated certificate back to the client, which it can do because it has access the the HTTPServletResponse. But where would I put such a component? In a specific wiki page? Does all that make sense? If not let me know before I go and code it up. Henry PS. It would be fun later to have the User's Profile page be a bit Ajaxy, so that if it notices a change to the invisible iframe the browser can make a reques to XWiki to refresh the table of public keys displayed to the user. Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/