I still remember when I made the conscious decision to go by the name “Will” instead of “William”. I was 11 or 12 years old, and we were moving from Irving, Texas, where we had lived the last 7 years or so, to Olive Branch, Mississippi. I don’t honestly recall why I decided to go […]
One of the decisions that has to be made, or at least considered, early in the design of any software project is identifying your target audience. This is especially true of libraries that are designed to be integrated into other applications. Who do you expect to be using this library, and how do you expect […]
I previously described how message handling works in the Internet2 OpenID library, and how each OpenID message type requires a half dozen or so classes to handle everything. While this may seem like overkill to some, one of the nice things about this separation of logic is that it makes it quite simple to provide […]
This past June I contracted with Internet2 to work on adding OpenID support to the Shibboleth Identity Provider. I had actually started to work on this over a year prior while working at USC. At the time there were (and still are) two primary OpenID libraries in Java, Verisign’s JOID, and Sxip’s OpenID4Java. I spent […]
This was actually a comment I left on my last post about the v3.3 release of the OpenID plugin. It is a topic that comes up relatively often, and one in which most people are surprised when they hear my stance on it. It’s worthy of a separate discussion for those that are interested, so […]