On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Simon Laws <simonsl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:08 PM, ant elder <antel...@apache.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Simon Laws <simonsl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:11 PM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:26 AM,  <sl...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>> Author: slaws
>>>>> Date: Tue Jul  5 08:26:12 2011
>>>>> New Revision: 1142920
>>>>>
>>>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1142920&view=rev
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> Re-enable Rampart support in the ws binding so that WS policy can be 
>>>>> applied. Add a test which, for the time being, demonstrates integrity.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How hard would it be to change this to be a separate optional module
>>>> so that if you don't need to use ws security then you don't need to
>>>> include all the extra jars this brings in?
>>>>
>>>>   ...ant
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think that could be straightforward. I split out the code that loads
>>> Rampart but it still sits in the axis integration class inside the ws
>>> binding  modules. Hence the dependencies. . We could put that code in
>>> a separate module and we'd have to move the WSPolicy model there as
>>> well. The question would be then how/when rampart gets engaged.
>>> Possibly we could put it in the policy provider and add a check to
>>> only engage it if it's not already engaged. We'd have to try it and
>>> see if the timing works.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>
>> Are you going to do this or are you just talking about it as a
>> hypothetical thing for the future?
>>
>>   ...ant
>>
>
> Just talking about it at the moment. Still mulling over whether having
> a separate module is a good idea or not.
>

Hows this coming?

I'd really prefer security to be a separate module. I spent a lot of
time cleaning up the Axis2 bindings dependencies and had them down to
just a small handful of jars, but this adds back a whole bunch more
jars and trebles the size of the dependencies.

   ...ant

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