OpenIDM: 2.0.3 Now Available

OpenIDM is ForgeRock’s open source, open standards based identity management solution. Today we released OpenIDM 2.0.3, which is the latest update release on the 2.0.x branch.

Download OpenIDM 2.0.3 from http://forgerock.org/openidm.html. Also see the release notes, which include a the long list of improvements and fixes that have gone onto the 2.0.x branch.

If you just want to kick the tires and get started with OpenIDM, see the install guide, which describes how to set up the samples that you get with the download.

The system integrator’s guide will help you move beyond the basics.

ForgeRock: We’re Hiring

Perhaps you know people who would like to join us full time at ForgeRock. If so, please let them know that we’re hiring for a variety of jobs in sales, business development, support, and engineering. The web page behind the link has instructions on how to apply.

Why work at ForgeRock? ForgeRock has a healthy attitude, flat hierarchy, and a huge potential for growth. The work keeps you interested and engaged, with strong software and a lots of good things coming up on the roadmap. The people are at the top of their game, smart, effective, open-minded, motivated. (Not just people who work for ForgeRock, but community members, customers, and partners, too.)

Core docs: Refactoring

The docbkx-tools Maven plugin has been a great boon for building core documentation for OpenAM, OpenDJ, OpenIDM using DocBook XML source. There’s lots of flexibility in DocBook XSL configuration, and also plenty that can be done with ant content in the Maven pom.xml.

With the flexibility comes a propensity for longer and longer sections in the pom.xml. Plus, maintaining the customizations in sync for all projects gets messy when done by copy/paste. (And would get messier as we add to projects like OpenIG, OpenICF.)

So I’ve moved to using a Maven plugin that relies on mojo-executor to call docbkx-tools. The plugin also does some other work as well.

Perhaps there’s something off-the-shelf that I could’ve taken. I didn’t find it, though building something has made it a bit easier to understand what I’m looking for.