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By now, you're probably familiar with the term 'tab sweep', particularly if you've read either of Tim or Rich 's blogs. You end the week with a bunch of tabs open in your browser that you need to blog about, so you do. Here's my first... First up, Rajeev's Blog . There's some great stuff there from the past few weeks - my favourites are How to Integrate OpenSSO with Salesforce.com via SAML and the OpenSSO QuickStart prototype . If you have any interest at all in OpenSSO , you need to subscribe to Read More...
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Next week at the Sun Developer Network Ask the Experts site , Rajeev Angal , Aravindan Ranganathan , Dilli Dorai , and Qingwen Cheng will be answering your questions on OpenSSO . If you have a question on access management, identity federation, secure web services or anything else OpenSSO-related, post it to the Ask the Experts page during the week of September 29. Go on - see if you can stump them Read More...
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Over at Sun Developer Network today, Sidharth Mishra talks to Marina Sum about Security for Web Services . It's an interesting, high-level discussion, covering both the motivations for securing Web services and some of the standards and technology in the area. In particular, there's a useful explanation of the role of the Security Token Service (STS) in brokering trust between Web service consumers and providers. Get yourself a nice cup of tea (or, if you must, coffee ) and give it a read . Read More...
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What with vacation and work on OpenSSO , I've built up quite a backlog of blogworthy news. Now that I've got a couple of hours spare, it's time to take a look at what's been happening over at Sun Developer Network's Identity pages ... The 'Securing Applications With Identity Services' series continues with part 4: ' Single Sign-On and Logout '. Prashant , Aravindan and Marina show how OpenSSO's REST-based identity services can be put to use in integrating a sample Java web application 'directly' Read More...
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As I just blogged over at The Aquarium , Aravindan , Lakshman and Marina just published part 3 of their series on the new identity services functionality available now in OpenSSO and coming soon in Sun Federated Access Manager 8.0 : Securing Applications With Identity Services, Part 3: User Attributes . User attributes are key for delivering personalized services, and are often the main reason for authenticating the user in the first place. Go read the article - whether you're a RESTafarian or on Read More...
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Tech author Marina Sum over at Sun Developer Network continues her series of interviews ; this time in the hot seat is Daniel Raskin , senior product line manager for access and federation management at Sun. In the interview , Daniel lifts the lid on some of the cool new features coming up in Sun Federated Access Manager 8.0 (and, of course, available NOW in OpenSSO ), including Fedlets , Virtual Federation, the Federation Validator and more. Exciting stuff! Read More...
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From the shameless self-promotion dept... Hot on the heels of her interview with Jamie last week , Marina 's latest subject is... me! Sadly, my suggested title of "Sun's Rising Identity Superstar" was rejected in favor of the far less exciting " OpenSSO , a Thriving Community". Oh well... Read More...
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Sun Developer Network tech author Marina Sum starts a new series of interviews this week with OpenSSO 's benevolent dictator and Sun's director of engineering for access and federation management , Jamie Nelson (my boss, so I'd better be careful here!). In the interview , Jamie explains how web developers need to consider security, but, at the same time, avoid hard-coding it into their apps. Some great tips and useful links for any web developer - read the article here! Read More...
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Following on from last June's Sun Developer Network article on Basic Authorization with Sun Java System Access Manager , Robert Skoczylas of Indigo Consulting and Sun tech author Marina Sum recently published a second article, Developing Secure Applications with Sun Java System Access Manager, Part 2: Advanced Authorization . This time, Robert and Marina look at how Sun Java System Access Manager can be used as a general purpose policy store, and, with some customization, can provide fine-grained Read More...
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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 Read More...
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It's been a busy couple of weeks, what with a trip to Tokyo, a typhoon on the day I flew out, an earthquake at home and the usual backlog of 1000 emails that follows any trip away from the office, so please excuse the recent dearth of blog entries! On returning, I was pleased to see Sun Developer Network 's identity pages have continued their expansion. The latest additions are: An Access Manager/Federation Manager FAQ area , with general FAQs and specific lists for the admin console , authentication Read More...
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