On 31/01/2012 11:08, Mark Struberg wrote: > Hi Simo! > > Sounds like a really nice project.
Hi Mark, first of all, thanks. > But I wonder if there is some overlap with the Apache Shiro project [1]? > [1] http://shiro.apache.org/ " Apache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management." - this means that Shiro is an Access Manager. Identity Manager's duties are about managing virtual user lifecycle, possible spread across multiple heterogeneous systems. This would involve: creating / updating / deleting /moving user credentials and attributes via LDAP / Active Directory / RDMS and so on. An Identity Manager - like Syncope - is usually working together with an Access Manager in order to provide a complete IAM (=Identity and Access Management) solution. Syncope does not provide yet a connector for interoperating with Shiro, but this looks like a nice feature to put somewhere in the roadmap. Regards. > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> >> To: general@incubator.apache.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:14 AM >> Subject: [DISCUSS] Syncope to Join the Apache Incubator >> >> Hi all guys, >> >> I would like to propose Syncope, an Open Source system for managing >> identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology, >> originally developed by Tirasa, an Italian IT company, to be an Apache >> Incubator project. >> The goal for Syncope is to become the reference implementation for >> Open Source Identity Management, a middleware area in which there are >> very few and not yet mature Open Source solutions available. >> >> Here's a link to the proposal in the Incubator wiki[1] where we >> started collecting all needed info. >> >> As you will note, the list of mentors is in need of some volunteers, >> so if you find this interesting, feel free to sign up or let us know >> you are interested :). >> >> Hope to read from you soon, thanks in advance and have a nice day! >> All the best, >> Simo >> >> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/SyncopeProposal >> >> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >> http://www.99soft.org/ -- Francesco Chicchiriccò Apache Cocoon Committer and PMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
