Provide maven library for integrated authentication

[mwisnicki]

For integrated authentication at the moment one has to get architecture specific DLL as per https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-jdbc#download-the-dlls and set it up using undocumented process (look at the number of issues from confused people such as #1601 #1439).

To save yourself from answering these questions and make users life easier too it would be preferable if you provided optional Maven jar with libraries that works out of the box by simply adding it as a dependency.

See JNA project for how it can be done: https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/blob/d367f0220be55b5638b3d324473ef0a7e654d83c/src/com/sun/jna/Native.java#L917

[lilgreenbird]

hi @mwisnicki

The DLLs are available for download in Maven:

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.sqlserver/mssql-jdbc_auth

Moving forward our goal is to work towards including all the functionality in Java and eliminating the need for the DLL all together eventually.

[mwisnicki]

Thanks, I'm aware of DLLs location - it is linked from README.

Having out-of-the-box integrated AD authentication in Java sounds amazing! I presume this would also cover HTTP clients?
Is there any place where I can monitor the progress?

Having said that most developers likely won't be able to use this future JDK for years to come so it would be good if situation could be improved on this side as well.

[lilgreenbird]

We are not actively working this at the moment this is in our backlog. We are currently waiting on AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-java#299 in order for us to look into support for this.

In the meantime, I have added this feature request into our backlog as well it will be 1 of the features/issues considered when we do planning for the next semester. However, please note that we have limited resources so we can only afford time on the highest priority issues and features.