Implementing SCIM with Charon - Part 1

You may need to refer to my previous blog post in order to get an overall idea on SCIM - Simple Cloud Identity Management..

This is about WSO2 Charon - one of the SCIM implementations which will be made available under Apache 2.0 license. Lets look at it in a top down approach.

Following diagram will give an overview on the module break down of Charon along with purpose of each module and  planned tasks of them.

Following is a brief introduction on each of the modules:

• Charon-Core:

        This is the API that exposes an implementation of SCIM specification. It can be used by any SCIM service provider or client implementation to support SCIM operations/functionalities. In addition to that, it also allows room for extension points to be plugged in according to the particular server side/client side implementation, such as authentication handler, user storage, encoders/decoders etc.

• Charon-Utils:

          This contains a set of default implementations of the extension points mentioned above. For an example - Basic Auth, OAuth handlers, LDAP based user storage etc. A particular implementation that uses charon-core as SCIM API, can use these default implementations as building blocks.

• Charon-Deployment: (Note: this is renamed as Charon-Impl)

       A reference implementation of SCIM service provider will be shipped with this module. Currently it is a Apache Wink based webapp that can be deployed in any application server - such as Tomcat, and make the SCIM endpoints be exposed. This is based on the above two modules : charon-core and charon-utils, and illustrates how any SCIM implementation can utilize the API and supporting module provided by Charon.

• Charon-Samples:

          This contains samples illustrating the SCIM use cases. Samples contains mainly the SCIM client side implementations which can be run against a SCIM server, and hence can also be referenced to get to know how the API provided by Charon can be used to implement SCIM client side.

Well.. this is a brief overview of what Charon is, how it is structured and what each module is supposed to do, supposed to be used for.

 More posts on Charon to be followed...