Re: [equinox-dev] Security work area committers: call to vote

[Olivier Gruber <ogruber@xxxxxxxxxx>]

+1


Olivier Gruber, Ph.D.
Persistent & Distributed Object Platforms and Frameworks
IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: equinox-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 11/18/2004 11:57 PM Please respond to equinox-dev

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I am pleased to announce that Ted Habeck and Jay Rosenthal have agreed
to push on the various security issues in Eclipse RCP within the Equinox
project.   

Ted works in the Security group at IBM Research (http://www.research.ibm.com/javasec).
 He is mainly focussed on enabling and configuring Java2 security
for the Eclipse 3.x platform.  His intent is to modify the Eclipse
3.1 code stream by adding doPrivileged() wrappers where appropriate and
providing call path analysis with required permission reports for the balance
of identified privileged operations.  I am very pleased he will be
able to apply his (and his group's) expertise to this extremely important
part of the overall security story. 

Jay is a member of the Lotus Infrastructure Security team working on Lotus
Workplace (major Eclipse-based RCP app).  He has been focused mainly
on areas such as authentication, keystores/credentialstores, integration
of JSSE and the Apache HTTP clients as well as Eclipse/SWT UI to manage
and interact with these components.  His experience with these technologies
in a product setting will help add a robust and flexible authentication
and keystore/credentialstore model based on standards (JAAS, KeyStore,
etc) to the Eclipse RCP. 

In the spirit of populating a new work area, I am calling on the Equinox
committers to vote in favour of granting commit rights to Ted and Jay.

+1 

Jeff