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JASIG NEWSLETTER - JUNE 2010
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Central Authentication Service (CAS)
- Jasig CAS Client for Java 3.1.11
- Announcement: Mitigating the Risk Due to Inherent Characteristics of Bearer Tokens
uPortal
- July 2010 uPortal Community Call
- uPortal Documentation Coordinator
Bedework
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- Who’s using Bedework? – You tell us
- Bedework and Internationalization
- Bedework visits Universidad Pública de Navarra
AROUND JASIG
- Jasig 2010 Elections - Call for Nominations
- Sakai Project Manager Position Open
- Kuali Days Call for Proposals
- Contegix Becomes Newest Jasig Partner
UPCOMING EVENTS
- The Jasig Fall 2010 Unconference is Coming!
- OSCON 2010 Open Source Convention - Portland, Oregon (July 19-23, 2010)
- 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference - Anaheim, California (October 12-15, 2010)
TECH CORNER
- "Unplutofy" your Portlets
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Jasig CAS Client for Java 3.1.11
Dear CAS Community,
We're pleased to announce a new release of the Jasig CAS Client for Java (version 3.1.11). The releases notes include:
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- CASC-67 - Document using the CAS Client with Spring Security Pre-Authentication methods
Bug
- CASC-102 - Custom proxy granting ticket storage methods not being set properly in web.xml
- CASC-106 - Saml11TicketValidatorTests.testValidationSuccessWithNoAttributes() fails due to TimeZone problem
- CASC-107 - Encoding when parsing validation response should be configurable in CAS client
- CASC-109 - Bug in AbstractTicketValidationFilter.java
- CASC-110 - Unable to change the replacement proxyGrantingTicketStorageClass implementation via web.xml
For those of you who use Maven, you can follow these instructions to add the CAS Client to your project:https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CASC/Obtaining+from+Maven2+Repository
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This upgrade is recommended for all users of the 3.1.x branch.
Cheers,
Scott
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Bedework
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Who’s using Bedework? – You tell us
On the new Bedework presence on the Jasig website, http://jasig.org/bedework, we have adopted the Jasig project convention (as per CAS and uPortal) of allowing those of you who have deployed Bedework to share the details of your deployment.
On the Bedework.org site, we maintained the who's who’s using list ourselves, largely through Google searches and mining the Bedework mailing lists. This was certainly more work for us, but the real problem with this approach is that it is not nearly as effective as having the deployers themselves tell their story in their own voice.
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Jonathan presented on Jasig and its projects, and I followed with a presentation about Bedework, open source and community source, and finally what I referred to as "un “un mundo, un calendario" – "one “one world, one calendar"calendar”. Jonathan and I both stressed our Bedework/Jasig desire to see greater collaboration with our European colleagues. A lively Q&A session followed our presentations.
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The Board is the group that manages strategic direction and policy for the entire organization, oversees all projects and events, provides shared infrastructure, and takes responsibility for the licensing and protection of intellectual property. The board also ensures that project management is consistent with the organization's organization’s mission, and makes sure that Jasig operates within its fiscal resources.
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Contegix will be providing hosting and managed support of the Jasig Internet infrastructure. This will allow the organization to focus on its core business – the development of their software products and support of the growing community. The new Jasig infrastructure is built on Contegix's Contegix’s stable platform and is fully managed 24x7 by Contegix engineers. Thus, it will greatly reduce the time spent doing troubleshooting and support internally.
"A few years ago, many people still questioned the use of open source software in higher education," says Matthew Porter, CEO and Co-Founder of Contegix. "Organizations such as Jasig are showing that through collaboration amongst institutions and commercial parties, open source software and related projects can enable future advancements in the higher education environment. Jasig's Jasig’s projects enable many global educational institutions to benefit from the contributions of a highly technical community and we are proud to support this endeavor."
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Contegix is a technology firm known for delivering exceptional customer service and internet infrastructure intelligence. Their dedicated staff of engineers provide solid solutions to complex business challenges in the areas of hosting, cloud computing, co-location and infrastructure management services. Founded in 2004, Contegix was listed as the Linux Journal's Reader's Journal’s Reader’s Choice Award for Favorite Linux-Friendly Web-Hosting Company, and has built a solid industry reputation entirely based on delivering peace of mind to valued clients. They serve clients in range of industries - from innovative technology start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
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"In the realm of higher education information technology, no other event brings together more powerful, creative minds in the field than the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference...Conference…
CONNECT with colleagues and explore solutions to today's today’s common higher ed IT challenges.
EMPOWER action by uncovering new ways to enhance your campus's campus’s resources and policies.
REVITALIZE and ignite ideas that help you navigate and shape our ever-changing future.
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Past editions of the Jasig Newsletter can be found in the Jasig wiki at:
http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/Newsletter
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