Re: [equinox-dev] [sec] use of Equinox secure storage

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Great news! Our attempts at handling
authentication in p2 were not very successful due to interaction with java.net.Authenticator,
and the cumbersome pattern of catching exceptions, trying to guess if they
are authentication failures, prompting and then retrying. Hopefully pushing
this down into ECF will make life easier for all clients of ECF including
p2.

John

Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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ECF has begun some work on using the new Equinox secure
storage to 
persist ECF IDs (which are used by ECF to uniquely identify users, 
accounts, services, remote resources, other things).  After Ganymede,
we 
expect this to be usable for (e.g.) automatic login to remote accounts,
single-sign on, local storage of user-data/properties by accounts, etc.

For those that are interested, please see/join bug:  
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=232116

Also see mailing list posting:  
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ecf-dev/msg01553.html


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