Difference between revisions of "New Higgins Download Page Proposal"

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About

• This page outlines a proposal for how the current Higgins Components page will be redesigned/repurposed to be the Higgins download page.
• Definitions:
  • A Solution is a specific combination of Higgins Components that, when assembled and deployed, result in either an infrastructure-level service, or an end-user application.
  • A Sub-Solution is a specific higher level functional Higgins Components that as a standalone deployment can provide an infrastructure-level service.
  • A Component is a low level Higgins Components that serves as functional building block in support of Higgins Solutions defined above.
• The below sections outline the major content points in prioritized order of appearance on the new Higgins download page.

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This page provides an easy one-stop location to download the code you need to be successful with your Higgins based project. The organization of this page has downloads in a progression starting with complete Higgins based solutions listed first, followed by functional sub-solutions and then finishing with individual Higgins component building blocks.

Solution Downloads

• This section will display a table that will enable the user to download the all the Higgins solutions. The columns in this download table will include the following data elements:
  • Solution Name - with link to existing solution wiki page
  • Download - with link to page for download/installation instructions and access.
  • Version - list version number and date of release
  • Solution owner - link to solution owner name
• The specific solutions that will be listed in this table include the following:
  • Higgins Selector - choose your flavor (group by OS):
    • Adobe AIR Selector -
    • GTK and Cocoa Selector - for Firefox (or other applications) on Linux, FreeBSD and OSX (client-based native code app)
    • RCP Selector - an Eclipse RCP Application (client-based Java app; requires JRE 1.4 or higher)
    • Firefox-Embedded Selector - for Firefox on Windows, Linux, and OSX (Requires hosted I-Card Service Component)
  • Higgins Identity Provider:
    • STS IdP - WS-Trust Identity Provider (webapp and web service)
    • SAML2 IdP - SAML2 Identity Provider (webapp and web service)
  • Higgins Relying Party:
    • Extensible Protocol RP Website - I-Card-enabled Relying Party site (webapp) [supersedes: RP Website Solution]
  • IdAS Solution - Identity Attribute Service uses Context Provider plugins to adapt existing data sources to the Context Data Model.
  • XDI4j - General purpose library for XDI (see the Wikipedia page on XDI)

Sub-Solution Downloads

• This section will display a table that will enable the user to download the all the Higgins sub-solutions. The columns in this download table will include the following data elements:
  • Sub-Solution Name - with link to sub-solution wiki page that describes details about this sub-solution
  • Download - with link to page for download/installation instructions and access.
  • Version - list version number and date of release
  • Solution owner - link to solution owner name
• The specific sub-solutions that users can download from this table include the following:
  • HBX-for-IE
  • AIR-Selector client
  • WAR deployment files for STS
  • WAR deployment files for I-Card Service
  • SAML2 IDP
  • Higgins Selector-Selector
  • others?

Component Downloads

• This section will display a table that will enable the user to download the all the Higgins components. The components will include all the items listed on the plug-ins folder on Components page today. The columns in this download table will include the following data elements:
  • Component Name - with link to component wiki page that describes more details.
  • Download - with link to page for download/installation instructions and access.
  • Version - list version number and date of release
  • Solution owner - link to solution owner name
  • Build status - an LED (red/green) indicator as to pass/fail status of last night nightly build.
  • Test status - an LED (red/green) indicator as to pass/fail status of last automated smoke test for the component.
• The specific sub-solutions that users can download from this table include the following:
  • plug-ins

Supporting Content Downloads

• This section will display a table that will enable the user to download the all the supporting Higgins content. The specific columns would include the following:
  • Component Name - with link to component wiki page that describes more details.
  • Download - with link to page for download/installation instructions and access.
  • Version - list version number and date of release
  • Solution owner - link to solution owner name
• The specific supporting content that users can download from this table include the following:
  • Higgins Ontology
  • Higgins Documentation