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[John Fereira]

Scott Battaglia wrote:
> John,
>
> CAS ships with adapters that support various authentication methods 
> (LDAP, RADIUS, JDBC, etc.).   In CAS releases we include these jar 
> files.  CAS also includes a localPlugins directory that is where you 
> place libs, classes, etc. related to your local deployment of CAS.  So 
> if you want to write your own AuthenticationHandler it would go in the 
> source directory.
*Which* source directory?  In the 
org.jasig.cas.authentication.handler.support package under 
core/src/main/java? 

I still find the use of the terms adapters, authentication handler, and 
plugins a bit confusing.  It could probably use a wiki page to explain it.
> If you wanted to use one of the included jar files, just drop it in 
> the localPlugins/lib directory.
>
> Finally, you'll just need to modify your deployerConfigContext.xml to 
> use the appropriate AuthenticationHandler (it can be a custom one or 
> an included one)
>
> Does that clear anything up? :-)
>
> -Scott
>
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