[cas-dev] the upcoming (but not too soon CAS4) and the CAS clients

[Marvin S. Addison]

> Being unfamiliar with SAML at the development tier ATM, I am only aware
> of the opensaml C++ libs.  Is anyone aware of the library availability
> for the set of languages/platforms being targeted here?

There is a Java OpenSAML library as well,
http://www.opensaml.org/docs/opensaml/2.2.0/apidocs/.

I'll admit you can cover a lot of platforms with Java and C++, but I
share your concerns that it adds a lot of complexity to CAS clients.
Ideally it would be nice to have a cas-client-common module that wraps
the opensaml libs and provides handles for operations needed by CAS
clients.  A C library for this might provide the most bang for the
buck, but it clearly won't cover all the bases.

Marvin