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Java OpenID Library - Target Audience

By Will Norris | Published: December 24, 2009
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 [...]

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Java OpenID Library - Configuration and Custom Messages

By Will Norris | Published: November 15, 2009
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 [...]

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Java OpenID Library Design - Message Handling

By Will Norris | Published: November 13, 2009
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. [...]

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A class needed by class <…> cannot be found: org/apache/tools/ant/Task

By Will Norris | Published: March 22, 2005
(I spent quite a few hours fighting this one, so hopefully Google will help others find this page…) After toying around with maven a bit, I discovered that none of my ant tasks would run. I hadn’t made any changes to anything in $ANT_HOME, but all of sudden things broke. What I had done without [...]

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OKI OSID Unit Testing

By Will Norris | Published: January 4, 2005
As part of hedmaster I’ve tried to implement as many of the OKI Specs as have made sense. I’m working on writing extensive JUnit test cases to thoroughly test hedmaster, and I got to thinking about writing a test suite to check for adherence to the OKI Specs. Because the OSID interfaces are designed to enable “drop [...]

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