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

[Ravi Madduri]

There is some information here: http://security.ncsa.uiuc.edu/research/wssec/gsihttps/gsiaxis.php 
  ( I bookmarked this when I came across it sometime ago)

HTH
On Mar 3, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Tom Scavo wrote:

> 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
>

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