[cas-dev] a quick start for CAS3 (Was: esup-casgeneric 2.0.7)

[Scott Battaglia]

Pascal Aubry wrote:
> Note: I splitted the discussion on the actual AuthenticationManagerImpl 
> to separated thread.
>
>   
>>>> We're also heavily utilizing Spring's Internationalization support 
>>>> (you actually supplied us with one of the properties files ;-)), 
>>>> though we are open for suggestions to make this even easier.    
>>>>         
>>> Bundles are ok for me.
>>>       
>>>> All of our HTML is currently stored in JSP pages, which hopefully 
>>>> should make customization easy.
>>>>         
>>> Sure.
>>>       
>> I'd like to confirm that. But some more guidelines might be a good 
>> idea. Usually layout people have to make those pages, and they're not 
>> always that savvy about CAS ;).
>>     
> I will propose a mechanism based on a custom folder; the files of this 
> folder will override the corresponding files of the original CAS 
> distribution. One advantage of this solution is to ease the recovering 
> of the customizations when upgrading; this way JSP files have to be 
> customized only once.
>   
We're actually looking into use a webapps folder as part of our 
localPlugins build.  If you're interested in helping out with that or 
something similar that would be great.  We're open to any ideas.

-Scott