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[Scott Battaglia]

The source directory would be the one for *your* local deployment:
localPlugins/src  You should never place local code under a CAS package.

AuthenticationHandler is a public CAS API for connecting to your backend
authentication system.  Adapters/plugins is just a generic term to represent
implementations of public CAS APIs such as JDBC authentication handlers,
etc. that are either provided in the CAS distribution or by deployers.

-Scott

On 1/8/07, John Fereira <jaf30 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>  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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