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

CPqD provides Operations Support and Business Support systems, training and consulting services to the telecommunications industry. Mário Celso Teixeira , of CPqD's Brazilian facility, describes their OpenSSO deployment in an email today to the users@opensso.dev.java.net mailing list: I want share with you that CPqD have deployed the OpenSSO as a single sign-on solution for 3000 users and 75 applications in October, 2008. After 4 months, 75 corporate applications was customizeds to use the single

I was looking at MarkMail today, specifically at September 2008's emails to users@opensso.dev.java.net , and it struck me how many were from folks outside Sun. In fact, looking at the Top 20 senders, only 10 are in the ' OpenSSO team' at Sun. Another 4 (shown highlighted in light yellow ) are folks from elsewhere in Sun, with 6 of the Top 20 (highlighted in yellow ) being participants from outside Sun. 1) Pat Patterson 27 2) Rohan Pinto 22 3) Dennis Seah 21 4) Aaron Sheffey 19 5) Shesh Kondi 17 6)

Sun Solution Architect Joachim Andres (aided and abetted by Paul Walker and Andy Hall ) has just written up an integration [PDF] of OpenSSO with Sun Secure Global Desktop . Secure Global Desktop (SGD for short) provides secure access to centralized Windows, UNIX/Linux, Mainframe and Midrange applications from a wide range of popular client devices, including Microsoft Windows PCs, Solaris OS Workstations, thin clients and more (can you tell I cut'n'pasted that from the product page? ). One of the

I covered the OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 launch event yesterday - here is a selection of the more interesting articles and quotes in reaction to the announcement: • Sun's press release has Chris Harvison, an Enterprise Architect at Scotiabank , looking forward to deploying OpenSSO: "Sun OpenSSO Enterprise brings innovations such as Fedlets and multi-protocol support that will simplify the on-boarding of new federation partners and reduce the costs of doing so. The new tools provide a means to quickly

Sun's new Access Manager is now OpenSSO Enterprise Felix Gaehtgens of Kuppinger Cole gives some in-depth info on OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 (registration required). (tags: federation identity saml opensso accessmanager kuppingercole felixgaehtgens sun )

I went to the launch of OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 ( press release ) this morning in Second Life, hosted by none other than the IdentiCat - Daniel Raskin , and my boss, director of engineering for OpenSSO - Jamie Nelson . It was definitely a different experience from a traditional webinar - there was audio and slides, but somehow it was more immersive, sitting in the hall with the other attendees. Some technical glitches, but, all in all, a great event. (Confession - the image (click on it for a larger

The Cancer and Leukemia Group B ( CALGB ) is a national clinical research group sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , with its Central Office headquartered at the University of Chicago and its Statistical Center located at Duke University . A couple of weeks ago, Robert Dale of CALGB contributed an OpenSSO/Spring Security integration to the OpenSSO project . I asked him how CALGB were using OpenSSO, and he was good enough to send me this explanation and allow me to publish it. We're probably

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

On Friday morning, Jim Gellman of the Institute for Systems Biology asked a question on the OpenSSO Users mailing list about OpenSSO / Spring Security (formerly known as Acegi) integration: We'd like to use opensso with an app that's using Spring Security currently, but we don't have the resources at the moment to develop a module to do this. Instead we're hoping we can use Spring Security's container adapter for tomcat along with the OpenSSO agent. Does anyone know for sure whether this is a reasonable