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February 19, 2005
Cocoon: CoWarp - the next authentication framework
During the last weeks I continued my work on CoWarp - an open source extension to Apache Cocoon for building web applications.
The current functionality is: authentication. CoWarp now provides more or less the same functionality as the authentication framework but in an imho more elegant way.
In the last days I rewrote CoWarp to make it even better fit with the new configuration functionalities of Cocoon 2.2 and I did some tests with the Cocoon portal framework. You can simply replace the authentication framework with CoWarp and take advantage of the benefits.
Now the main difference between CoWarp and the authentication frameowkr is object based vs. XML document based. So CoWarp fits bettter if you're using Java objects to describe your users. Just use your favorite OR mapping tools in combination with CoWarp.
The authentication framework has been designed (by me) more than four years ago; there were always some rough edges that I never liked. But because of compatibility it's not easy to change contracts. So CoWarp is more or less the next version of the authentication framework - with similar (but slightly different) concepts and a total new implementation.
Posted by cziegeler at February 19, 2005 07:31 PM