Re: New plugin/module: Authenticator

Hi Peter

Great work, this is an excellent companion to your earlier work
(ProxySelector2). If this works great, it will of course be excellent if
it could get adopted into the NetBeans Platform in due course (if your
licensing is compatible, and there is sufficient motivation for such
adoption), barring that, it may be useful to have "official" update
centers for both of these available, so that we could easily get your
latest official updates for them inside deployed applications over time.
As you say, this is merely a cloneable module for now, but I wouldn't
want to (need to) duplicate packaging if it can be avoided :)

Best regards,
Ernest

On 24/04/16 02:25, Peter Hansson wrote:
> I've just released an alternative Authenticator for use with NetBeans
> Plaform applications.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/phansson/netbeansnetworkauthenticator
>
>
> On the above page you can read why this is relevant for NetBeans
> Platform applications.
>
>
> If you don't know what an Authenticator is:   It is a Java SE thingy
> that gets invoked when some network task is in need of credentials.
> NetBeans Platform provides its own implementation but it is
> unfortunately way too simplistic to make sense in use in the real
> applications. More on this in the README.
>
>
> Enjoy.
>
>
> Peter
>
>
> (I haven't yet released it as a plugin, for now it is merely a module
> that app developers can clone. It some ways it would probably make
> more sense releasing stuff like this to Maven Central rather than to
> plugins.netbeans.org)
>