Hi, On 2/26/06, Trustin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgot to forward this converstation about SASL to mina-dev mailing list. > It would be great if all mina users post messages to mina-dev. :)
First post on mina-dev :) <snip/> > I'm interested in using SASL to secure my project. I notice that this will > be supported in version 0.9. Is it supported in the latest unstable version > (perhaps from SVN)? I haven't managed to find much information about it on > the web. > > > MINA 0.9.x supports StartTLS, but not SASL yet. SASL is a very generic > authentication mechanism so I'm not sure I can create a filter for it. > Fortunately, SUN abstracted SASL mechanism into an API: > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/security/sasl/package-summary.html Jon, the SASL API provided by SUN is extremely straightforward (once you get your head around the concept). There are quite a few most commonly used SASL mechanisms supported - do take a look at the documentation here - http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/sasl/sasl-refguide.html It would only make sense to implement the security layer as a MINA filter, and not the mechanism itself. The security layer is not commonly used since there are other transport layer security protocols such as TLS that are more popular and easier to use. <snip/> HTH, Vinod.
