One new area of work in OpenSSO is Identity Services , allowing a developer to easily write code to authenticate users, check if those users are authorized to access resources, retrieve those users' attributes etc. While all of this functionality has long been available in different forms, the new Identity Services work collects common identity tasks into an easy-to-use set of web services accessible via SOAP and REST. Now developers working in just about any language can join the identity party
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