Shibboleth 1.3 released

Just before going home on monday, Walter and I made the final release of Shibboleth 1.3. Okay, so he did a few things in CVS and I just kinda watched, but it was fun all the same. My last six months here at UofM have been focused on this release. I started off with some pretty cool unit test scripts, which led to the development of a nice little embedded Tomcat class that can test pretty much an servlet. We squashed a couple of bugs due to my tests, but the test code didn’t end up going into this release. Most recently I developed new installation method that ended up leading to some really cool methods for installing Shib plugins. Again, this led to some pretty nice ant tasks to create interactive input menus. I’ve thought about cleaning them up a little and submitting them to ant-contrib, but haven’t had the time or overwhelming desire yet.

Okay, so I didn’t completely rewrite the IdP ProtocolHandler or anything near as significant, but it’s been a lot of fun working on a large distributed project, as opposed to the in-house work I normally do. Plus it’s kinda neat knowing that hundreds (thousands?) of people will be using my script to install Shibboleth. :-) Hopefully with focus now shifting toward version 2.0, I’ll be able to get my hands dirty in the program code a little more.

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