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Java One blog number 10 billion... or Duke has an exhaust port

Ok, so apparently java one is happening. It is, um, big. I was there today, and I am either easily impressed or there are some very cool things happening with Java technology these days. Perhaps most impressive was the very new fangled looking exhaust port Duke is sporting while cruising the pavilion floor. I do not know from whence the port comes...

Speaking of cruising the pavilion floor, we had the chance to show off Access Manager's super cool integration with Netbeans Enterprise Pack 5.5 Early Access at our identity management pod in the pavilion. (Say that 5 times fast.)

Once you download the bits, you can pretty quickly set up Access Manager, Netbeans, and Sun's application server to protect messages between a web service client and a web service provider. In the example provided AM adds SAML tokens (and other WS-I BSP token formats) to the stock ticker sample application. The coolest thing is that you can add security to your applications through the IDE without changing anything about your application development model or without having to learn anything about SAML, WS-I, or Access Manager. (Of course, if you wanted to learn more about Access Manager, we probably wouldn't complain.)

I am pretty excited about this as it brings us a whole lot closer to creating the "easy" button for identity enabling and securing web, java, and web services applications. All of this, of course, will end up in OpenSSO so everyone can play around with the code.

On another unrelated but (to me equally) exciting note, this blog is being composed from my new Ubuntu machine in my home office. I managed to get everything up and running in a shockingly short amount of time. I am positively glowing with a perhaps slightly overdeveloped sense of accomplishment. It is really, really cool when technology is simple and works. There is an important product management lesson in here, and I am desperately trying to learn it.

Posted at 10:06PM May 16, 2006 by carlericleach in Access Manager  |  Comments[4]