[xwiki-devs] GSOC-2012 LDAP Server Implementation
Hello. My name is Sai Teja Jammalamadaka. I'm a Student of Computer Science and Engineering (B.Tech.) at Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, India. I am interested to participate in GSOC this year. I've taken a look at the ideas page, and I see that you are wanting to develop a LDAP server using XWiki. To be frank, I have never worked on an open source project before. I have worked on Java based web projects which I've submitted for Competitions like Oracle's ThinkQuest International Competition and IBM's The Great Mind Challenge. I created a small side scrolling java game using the JGame Java Library. So I do have a good exposure to the Java Language. But I've never channeled my time into working with a public open source project, as of yet. What I've understood from discussing on IRC is that the project is to implement an XWiki LDAP as a backend for user registration and groups for XWiki. I think that it will provide me with a good challenge and at the same time allow me to learn more about java, since I am a java programmer at heart. One of my strong points is that I can analyse pieces of java code with ease, so I feel that I will be able to get a good understanding of XWiki during the community bonding period in May before the actual coding starts. I would like your advice and feedback. I mean is there scope for you to select a project related to the LDAP compared to other projects? And since I've never worked before on open source projects, will that affect my chance of getting accepted? What else can I do to overcome that drawback? Eagerly Awaiting Your Reply, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka, Student of Computer Science and Engineering, Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, 534204 Andhra Pradesh INDIA Link to CV: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3KNacfHUN6OamJwWGFuQ0FULWlmLUxab25yejhaQQ Website: www.saiteja.in (undergoing maintenance) Email: [email protected] IRC Nick: audiodevelop
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
My name is Sai Teja Jammalamadaka. I'm a Student of Computer Science and Engineering (B.Tech.) at Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, India.
I am interested to participate in GSOC this year. I've taken a look at the ideas page, and I see that you are wanting to develop a LDAP server using XWiki.
To be frank, I have never worked on an open source project before. I have worked on Java based web projects which I've submitted for Competitions like Oracle's ThinkQuest International Competition and IBM's The Great Mind Challenge. I created a small side scrolling java game using the JGame Java Library. So I do have a good exposure to the Java Language. But I've never channeled my time into working with a public open source project, as of yet.
What I've understood from discussing on IRC is that the project is to implement an XWiki LDAP as a backend for user registration and groups for XWiki.
To say it another way, the idea is to allow communicating with XWiki using LDAP protocol. With a main target for the GSOC on user authentication and group management.
I think that it will provide me with a good challenge and at the same time allow me to learn more about java, since I am a java programmer at heart. One of my strong points is that I can analyse pieces of java code with ease, so I feel that I will be able to get a good understanding of XWiki during the community bonding period in May before the actual coding starts.
I would like your advice and feedback. I mean is there scope for you to select a project related to the LDAP compared to other projects? And since I've never worked before on open source projects, will that affect my chance of getting accepted? What else can I do to overcome that drawback?
The fact that you never worked on an open source project is not directly relevant for me but it imply that we can't see code you wrote which make it harder for us to really see what you can do. As suggested on http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/student+application+f... if you don't have any code to show (and even if you have) the best is to provide pull requests for some issues on http://jira.xwiki.org (best being to choose issue related to what you plan to work on like LDAP authenticator or user/group management in general).
Eagerly Awaiting Your Reply, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka, Student of Computer Science and Engineering, Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, 534204 Andhra Pradesh INDIA
Link to CV: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3KNacfHUN6OamJwWGFuQ0FULWlmLUxab25yejhaQQ Website: www.saiteja.in (undergoing maintenance) Email: [email protected] IRC Nick: audiodevelop _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Thomas Mortagne
Hi Teja, You can try with JNDI to call LDAP You may need to modify the action servlet for authentication.( XWiki is using struts front controller framework).Or may be you can use an intercepting filter (don't think its possible there). Thomas will give you more info. I am just suggesting an approach. I am a student like you are here. Don't worry I am not proposing for LDAP project. Regards Sasinda Rukshan. On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
My name is Sai Teja Jammalamadaka. I'm a Student of Computer Science and Engineering (B.Tech.) at Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, India.
I am interested to participate in GSOC this year. I've taken a look at the ideas page, and I see that you are wanting to develop a LDAP server using XWiki.
To be frank, I have never worked on an open source project before. I have worked on Java based web projects which I've submitted for Competitions like Oracle's ThinkQuest International Competition and IBM's The Great Mind Challenge. I created a small side scrolling java game using the JGame Java Library. So I do have a good exposure to the Java Language. But I've never channeled my time into working with a public open source project, as of yet.
What I've understood from discussing on IRC is that the project is to implement an XWiki LDAP as a backend for user registration and groups for XWiki.
To say it another way, the idea is to allow communicating with XWiki using LDAP protocol. With a main target for the GSOC on user authentication and group management.
I think that it will provide me with a good challenge and at the same time allow me to learn more about java, since I am a java programmer at heart. One of my strong points is that I can analyse pieces of java code with ease, so I feel that I will be able to get a good understanding of XWiki during the community bonding period in May before the actual coding starts.
I would like your advice and feedback. I mean is there scope for you to select a project related to the LDAP compared to other projects? And since I've never worked before on open source projects, will that affect my chance of getting accepted? What else can I do to overcome that drawback?
The fact that you never worked on an open source project is not directly relevant for me but it imply that we can't see code you wrote which make it harder for us to really see what you can do.
As suggested on
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/student+application+f... if you don't have any code to show (and even if you have) the best is to provide pull requests for some issues on http://jira.xwiki.org (best being to choose issue related to what you plan to work on like LDAP authenticator or user/group management in general).
Eagerly Awaiting Your Reply, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka, Student of Computer Science and Engineering, Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, 534204 Andhra Pradesh INDIA
Link to CV:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3KNacfHUN6OamJwWGFuQ0FULWlmLUxab25yejhaQQ
Website: www.saiteja.in (undergoing maintenance) Email: [email protected] IRC Nick: audiodevelop _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
I think the main challenge here is that LDAP is not HTTP so you can't count on classical Servlet way of communicating with XWiki like it's done for everything right now (UI, WebDAV, REST, XML-RPC, etc.) so the first thing will be to find a way to access XWiki with another protocol than HTTP without it to be a pain to setup. On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:12 AM, sasinda rukshan <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Teja,
You can try with JNDI to call LDAP You may need to modify the action servlet for authentication.( XWiki is using struts front controller framework).Or may be you can use an intercepting filter (don't think its possible there). Thomas will give you more info. I am just suggesting an approach. I am a student like you are here. Don't worry I am not proposing for LDAP project.
Regards Sasinda Rukshan.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
My name is Sai Teja Jammalamadaka. I'm a Student of Computer Science and Engineering (B.Tech.) at Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, India.
I am interested to participate in GSOC this year. I've taken a look at the ideas page, and I see that you are wanting to develop a LDAP server using XWiki.
To be frank, I have never worked on an open source project before. I have worked on Java based web projects which I've submitted for Competitions like Oracle's ThinkQuest International Competition and IBM's The Great Mind Challenge. I created a small side scrolling java game using the JGame Java Library. So I do have a good exposure to the Java Language. But I've never channeled my time into working with a public open source project, as of yet.
What I've understood from discussing on IRC is that the project is to implement an XWiki LDAP as a backend for user registration and groups for XWiki.
To say it another way, the idea is to allow communicating with XWiki using LDAP protocol. With a main target for the GSOC on user authentication and group management.
I think that it will provide me with a good challenge and at the same time allow me to learn more about java, since I am a java programmer at heart. One of my strong points is that I can analyse pieces of java code with ease, so I feel that I will be able to get a good understanding of XWiki during the community bonding period in May before the actual coding starts.
I would like your advice and feedback. I mean is there scope for you to select a project related to the LDAP compared to other projects? And since I've never worked before on open source projects, will that affect my chance of getting accepted? What else can I do to overcome that drawback?
The fact that you never worked on an open source project is not directly relevant for me but it imply that we can't see code you wrote which make it harder for us to really see what you can do.
As suggested on
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/student+application+f... if you don't have any code to show (and even if you have) the best is to provide pull requests for some issues on http://jira.xwiki.org (best being to choose issue related to what you plan to work on like LDAP authenticator or user/group management in general).
Eagerly Awaiting Your Reply, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka, Student of Computer Science and Engineering, Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, 534204 Andhra Pradesh INDIA
Link to CV:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3KNacfHUN6OamJwWGFuQ0FULWlmLUxab25yejhaQQ
Website: www.saiteja.in (undergoing maintenance) Email: [email protected] IRC Nick: audiodevelop _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
_______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Thomas Mortagne
Hi, May be embed ApacheDS into XWiki: http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/41-embedding-apacheds-into-an-appli... ? Note that I'm not familiar with LDAP, may be I'm wrong. Cheers! - Asiri On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
I think the main challenge here is that LDAP is not HTTP so you can't count on classical Servlet way of communicating with XWiki like it's done for everything right now (UI, WebDAV, REST, XML-RPC, etc.) so the first thing will be to find a way to access XWiki with another protocol than HTTP without it to be a pain to setup.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:12 AM, sasinda rukshan <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Teja,
You can try with JNDI to call LDAP You may need to modify the action servlet for authentication.( XWiki is using struts front controller framework).Or may be you can use an intercepting filter (don't think its possible there). Thomas will give you more info. I am just suggesting an approach. I am a student like you are here. Don't worry I am not proposing for LDAP project.
Regards Sasinda Rukshan.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
My name is Sai Teja Jammalamadaka. I'm a Student of Computer Science and Engineering (B.Tech.) at Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, India.
I am interested to participate in GSOC this year. I've taken a look at the ideas page, and I see that you are wanting to develop a LDAP server using XWiki.
To be frank, I have never worked on an open source project before. I have worked on Java based web projects which I've submitted for Competitions like Oracle's ThinkQuest International Competition and IBM's The Great Mind Challenge. I created a small side scrolling java game using the JGame Java Library. So I do have a good exposure to the Java Language. But I've never channeled my time into working with a public open source project, as of yet.
What I've understood from discussing on IRC is that the project is to implement an XWiki LDAP as a backend for user registration and groups for XWiki.
To say it another way, the idea is to allow communicating with XWiki using LDAP protocol. With a main target for the GSOC on user authentication and group management.
I think that it will provide me with a good challenge and at the same time allow me to learn more about java, since I am a java programmer at heart. One of my strong points is that I can analyse pieces of java code with ease, so I feel that I will be able to get a good understanding of XWiki during the community bonding period in May before the actual coding starts.
I would like your advice and feedback. I mean is there scope for you to select a project related to the LDAP compared to other projects? And since I've never worked before on open source projects, will that affect my chance of getting accepted? What else can I do to overcome that drawback?
The fact that you never worked on an open source project is not directly relevant for me but it imply that we can't see code you wrote which make it harder for us to really see what you can do.
As suggested on
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/student+application+f...
if you don't have any code to show (and even if you have) the best is to provide pull requests for some issues on http://jira.xwiki.org (best being to choose issue related to what you plan to work on like LDAP authenticator or user/group management in general).
Eagerly Awaiting Your Reply, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka, Student of Computer Science and Engineering, Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, 534204 Andhra Pradesh INDIA
Link to CV:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3KNacfHUN6OamJwWGFuQ0FULWlmLUxab25yejhaQQ
Website: www.saiteja.in (undergoing maintenance) Email: [email protected] IRC Nick: audiodevelop _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
_______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
Yep ApacheDS is a good candidate to at least get inspiration and reuse as much as possible since it's recent and full Java. But remain the fact that ideally it would be nice to not have to install ApacheDS complete server and configure it to change its backend (if that's even possible) and instead just put an XWiki module (and dependencies) which works without any configuration like you get REST interface or Webdav interface for example. Said another way the idea is to do an XWiki extension, not a ApacheDS extension ;) On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Asiri Rathnayake <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
May be embed ApacheDS into XWiki: http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/41-embedding-apacheds-into-an-appli... ?
Note that I'm not familiar with LDAP, may be I'm wrong.
Cheers!
- Asiri
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
I think the main challenge here is that LDAP is not HTTP so you can't count on classical Servlet way of communicating with XWiki like it's done for everything right now (UI, WebDAV, REST, XML-RPC, etc.) so the first thing will be to find a way to access XWiki with another protocol than HTTP without it to be a pain to setup.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:12 AM, sasinda rukshan <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Teja,
You can try with JNDI to call LDAP You may need to modify the action servlet for authentication.( XWiki is using struts front controller framework).Or may be you can use an intercepting filter (don't think its possible there). Thomas will give you more info. I am just suggesting an approach. I am a student like you are here. Don't worry I am not proposing for LDAP project.
Regards Sasinda Rukshan.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
My name is Sai Teja Jammalamadaka. I'm a Student of Computer Science and Engineering (B.Tech.) at Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, India.
I am interested to participate in GSOC this year. I've taken a look at the ideas page, and I see that you are wanting to develop a LDAP server using XWiki.
To be frank, I have never worked on an open source project before. I have worked on Java based web projects which I've submitted for Competitions like Oracle's ThinkQuest International Competition and IBM's The Great Mind Challenge. I created a small side scrolling java game using the JGame Java Library. So I do have a good exposure to the Java Language. But I've never channeled my time into working with a public open source project, as of yet.
What I've understood from discussing on IRC is that the project is to implement an XWiki LDAP as a backend for user registration and groups for XWiki.
To say it another way, the idea is to allow communicating with XWiki using LDAP protocol. With a main target for the GSOC on user authentication and group management.
I think that it will provide me with a good challenge and at the same time allow me to learn more about java, since I am a java programmer at heart. One of my strong points is that I can analyse pieces of java code with ease, so I feel that I will be able to get a good understanding of XWiki during the community bonding period in May before the actual coding starts.
I would like your advice and feedback. I mean is there scope for you to select a project related to the LDAP compared to other projects? And since I've never worked before on open source projects, will that affect my chance of getting accepted? What else can I do to overcome that drawback?
The fact that you never worked on an open source project is not directly relevant for me but it imply that we can't see code you wrote which make it harder for us to really see what you can do.
As suggested on
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/student+application+f...
if you don't have any code to show (and even if you have) the best is to provide pull requests for some issues on http://jira.xwiki.org (best being to choose issue related to what you plan to work on like LDAP authenticator or user/group management in general).
Eagerly Awaiting Your Reply, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka, Student of Computer Science and Engineering, Vishnu Institute of Technology, Bhimavaram, 534204 Andhra Pradesh INDIA
Link to CV:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3KNacfHUN6OamJwWGFuQ0FULWlmLUxab25yejhaQQ
Website: www.saiteja.in (undergoing maintenance) Email: [email protected] IRC Nick: audiodevelop _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
_______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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-- Thomas Mortagne
Sorry for the late reply, What about OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/ Though its written in C, I think the source may provide a good example of what to implement in XWiki. I'm planning to write a proposal using this information. Any feedback?
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka <[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry for the late reply,
What about OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/ Though its written in C, I think the source may provide a good example of what to implement in XWiki. I'm planning to write a proposal using this information. Any feedback?
ApacheDS is Open Source and written in Java so I'm sure it will be way more useful than OpenLDAP here. It's probably even possible to reuse modules of this project and you should try to reuse as much as possible.
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-- Thomas Mortagne
Yes you are right, I kind of overlooked that, thanks! (Sorry, We are having exams right now, so couldn't focus correctly) On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Sai Teja Jammalamadaka <[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry for the late reply,
What about OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/ Though its written in C, I think the source may provide a good example of what to implement in XWiki. I'm planning to write a proposal using this information. Any feedback?
ApacheDS is Open Source and written in Java so I'm sure it will be way more useful than OpenLDAP here. It's probably even possible to reuse modules of this project and you should try to reuse as much as possible.
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-- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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Asiri Rathnayake -
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Thomas Mortagne