Archives for Justen Stepka

Integrating Crowd with Apache and Subversion

Internally we have started migrating most of our applications to use Crowd as a central location for authentication and authorization information along with single sign-on (SSO). One of the applications that had been escaping us was getting Subversion integrated -- but this has all changed. We happy to say that Crowd can now be integrated with with Apache and Subversion. The authentication handler works with the mod_perl library that is commonly available for most Apache HTTP Server installations.

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Updating the Stack – Migrating from WebWork 1.4 to 2.2.4

With a recent release of Crowd, our team decided to upgrade the WebWork 1.4 stack to version 2.2.4 which as of now is the most recent release. When we originally sat down to write Crowd (previously IDX), we evaluated a variety of technologies and ended up picking version 1.4 because of the stability offered by the framework having a know list of limitations and bugs. Often it amazes me when a project (mostly inexperienced developers) uses the latest and greatest technology. Having a mature and proven

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Atlassian makes available Crowd

I am excited to announce that after three months of working with some of the greatest people to transition Authentisoft into Atlassian, Crowd is now available for download. Crowd seamless provides integrated logins across JIRA, Confluence and the upcoming Bamboo products, as well as other enterprise applications like Fisheye and Jive’s Forums and Wildfire. Crowd also supports anything you want to connect it to. Out of the box there is a simple to use Java API that gives you authentication (SSO)

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