What is the best strategy for Social LinkedIn <-> Security integration?

[robd]

I'm the person who contributed the code to integrate spring social with linkedin. Unfortunately I don't check in here very often as it was a community contribution, rather than I work for SpringSource, and I'm snowed under with a client project at the moment.

Not sure where you are with this at the moment. All my work was contributed late 2011 so well after that thread. The code was quite light around when the thread was written as facebook seemed to be the priority for SpringSource. Most of my contribution was around mapping the linkedin API calls to spring rather than the OAuth (login) part, which was already done and working well.

I see you're using Spring Roo as well, which I ended up steering away from. At the time I found it to difficult to do anything outside the norm (i.e. spring social) with it. It adds a layer of abstraction to the developer and thus ended up frustrating me more than anything. This is not to say I'm critical of Roo just that it was another thing to get my head around when I'm used to working at a lower more direct level.

To be honest if all you're doing is using the login with linked in button then the spring-social-linked in api is possibly way overkill for you. You can easily do this with their javascript widget at https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/sign-linkedin then pass the id back to your current auth system.

I'll try to check in over the next couple of weeks to see how you're getting on.

[greg.soulsby]

Not sure where you are with this at the moment.

Have a virtually working Spring Social Showcase in a Roo project and a shell of a Plugin. I will post to github after this 4 day weekend in London - queue trumpets - "....long may she reign over us...."

I see you're using Spring Roo as well, which I ended up steering away from.

Roo is, as far as I can tell, a paradigm shifter. My view of the strategic implications are not articulated at all in any of the documentation or books I have seen.

To be honest if all you're doing is using the login with linked in button then the spring-social-linked in api is possibly way overkill for you. You can easily do this with their javascript widget at https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/sign-linkedin then pass the id back to your current auth system.

Really good idea. I am seeing the Roo Social Plugin offer a number of implementation use cases, and this is really good one. If you post the "easy" code I would include it as an option in what I do for the plugin.

I'll try to check in over the next couple of weeks to see how you're getting on.

Yes, please!