Re: [xacml-users] RBAC using XACML

[Prakash Yamuna <techpy@gmail.com>]

You can have a servlet and send in the XACML request as XML
(ultimately pretty similar to SAML).

You can use the encode method on the ResponseCtx and pass a servlet
outpuststream as parameter.

prakash
On 4/12/05, Stoica Alexandru <stoica.alexandru@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your help!
> On Apr 12, 2005 11:41 AM, Ganesh Prabhu <ganesh.prabhu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I guess you will find SAML quite useful for your need. There is an
> > implementation of SAML 1.0 at http://www.opensaml.org
> >
> > Ganesh
> >
> > On 4/12/05, Muhammad Masoom Alam <Muhammad.alam@uibk.ac.at> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i dont know much about the use of XACML over the network, but i think so
> > > SAML standard can be used to wrap an XACML request and response over the
> > > network.
> > >
> > > for SAML there are some implemenatation (open source) so check out them, if
> > > they are going to solve you problem.
> > >
> > > Muhammad.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Stoica Alexandru" <stoica.alexandru@gmail.com>
> > > To: <xacml-users@lists.oasis-open.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:42 PM
> > > Subject: [xacml-users] RBAC using XACML
> > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >   I'm trying to develop an simple RBAC service using Sun's XACML
> > > > implementation.The service it's actually a server , responding to
> > > > clients' requests.
> > > >  I'm having trouble sending/receving the RequestCtx/ResponseCtx over
> > > > the network.I know the Sun's XACML implementation doesn't have support
> > > > for this kind of operations, it only works with files(load and save
> > > > objects from .xml files).
> > > > I've tried using the "encode" and "getInstance" methods to send data
> > > > over stream obtained from a channel
> > > > (Channels.NewInput/OutputStream(channel)) but the "getInstance"
> > > > parsing method finishes only if the client closes the connection.I've
> > > > also tried reading the data first , and then create an InputStream
> > > > class over an nio.ByteBuffer with read/write methods instead of
> > > > put/get but I always get an parsing exception when I try to create an
> > > > Request object by calling getInstance.
> > > > Does any of you know a standard way to send/receive this objects over
> > > > the network, or wat is the best way in doig that?
> > > > Is there any "high-level" API to parse .xml format data from
> > > > socket/channel directly and returns a Node to the root element?
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Alex!
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Teach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case.
> >
>