What have we been up to....

It has been commented that this site has not changed in a while and what have we been up to...

Well the main developer/designer lost his main income source, spent a fair while on holiday and started a new career as a Tech-Mercenary. Hence the lack of time on working on this project - he has also been planning his forthcoming wedding :-)

A couple of months ago we had a review and decided that the AgentLite system should change from the initial single-user, single-pc implementation to a multi-user SME based one. As a consequence we have been (when time allows) looking at and designing a user-and-groups based generic logon system based (initially) around a web-service and a plug-in backend architecture which would allow database, password file, LDAP, or most other back-end systems; one key feature is that we will not only allow username and password, but other credential mechanism such as fingerprint and iris scans. This work is well under-way, and when implemented will be a standalone component that can be re-used in other potential AgentLite systems such as a web-portal.

Incidently the login/session management system is going to be described within Gary Leeson's website.