S3 REST API in Java
Holding off on the Shibboleth integration tests until I can watch the logs throughout the day tomorrow.

In the meantime, experimenting with the Java library for S3's REST API. This seems to be more recently maintained than their SOAP alternative.

The sample application worked fine, storing and reading objects in a test bucket. I've compiled the integration code into a jar and created our own git repository of the current version.

Next to build a basic tool we can use from the command line to get some sample data into the service. Then to create an abstraction layer so we can pull the wordmaps, links and images (for highlighting/slicing) from S3 to the webservers. At the moment the webserver expects to find these on the local filesystem. We should be able to use Spring's caching framework to reduce the performance hit.

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- posted by Tim Bruce @ 12:31 AM