[gridshib-user] Standalone Axis + GSI + Gridshib *without* GTK

[Tom Scavo]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Stefan Plantikow <plantikow at zib.de> wrote:
>
>  is it possible to use GridShib without ws-core/Globus Toolkit? I would
>  like to migrate an existing axis 1.x webservice implementation to GSI/
>  GridShib.

I don't know.  To my knowledge, this has never been done.  That said,
GridShib relies on X.509-bound SAML tokens, so in principle any
implementation of WS-Security X.509 Token Profile should be adequate.

>  While there is some documentation on how to set up a
>  standalone axis with GSI support, I did not find anything similiar for
>  Shibboleth/GridShib.

Can you point me to documentation showing how to set up standalone
Axis with GSI?

> I'd appreciate any hints, links on whether this
>  is possible at all and how it can be done.

As of GT 4.1+, the GT authorization framework is independent of GT so
in theory it should be possible to set up GridShib for GT apart from
GT (a contradiction in terms, I know :) but I've never done this.

FYI, support for GT 4.1+ will be included in GridShib for GT v0.6.1,
due out later this month or early next, hopefully before the release
of GT 4.2 (whenever that is).

Tom