Re: [xacml-dev] Policy editor? Gui?

[Seth Proctor <Seth.Proctor@Sun.COM>]

On Nov 10, 2004, at 10:31 PM, Kuketayev, Argyn wrote:
> Is anybody working on a open-source graphical policy editor ?
> Is there a business case for it?

This past summer I started work on a pretty powerful tool, but I 
haven't been able to open source it yet (though I would very much like 
to). I don't know about business cases, but there is definately real 
demand for such tools.

> What would be the minimum set of features to make it useful?
> Should it be tailored for a particular implementation, such as SunXACML
> or could it be useful for any XACML policy?

I've been thinking about aspects of both. I think there are general 
aspects that any tool could handle. Because SunXACML has some 
configuration facilities, my tool tied those in. Maybe we should get an 
interested group together to brainstorm?

FYI, there was an open source attempt (on sourceforge) to create an 
XACML tool. This was started by a grad student at Virginia Tech with 
whom I was working. He has since graduated, so I don't know the current 
status of that tool.

> I've been thinking about editor ever since I had to write policies. 
> It's
> very inconvinient to edit them in regular XML editor.

Yes. I started work on a tool mostly because I was sick of looking at 
policies in emacs :)


seth