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Friday Oct 20, 2006

What's in a name?

Being readied for imminent release is the Sun Java System Access Manager Policy Agent 2.2 for Sun Java System Application Server 9.0/Web Services. That's quite a name for such a little piece of code. What know one ever tells me is who decides on these names? Marketing? Legal? R & D? No one asked me so I just type it whenever I need to use it. What a PITA! Hey people! Ask the writers!

What is not a PITA is the name of, and the music on, Christina Aquilera's new CD, Back to Basics. Meld hip-pop with a 40s sensibility and you've got the tunes on this record. And it has a nice, short, to-the-point name. Not a fan previously, I was curious to hear how Christina pays tribute to vocalists from the 20s on up. She did very nicely, thank you. (On some records, Christina goes a little overboard on the histrionics in her voice but she managed to subdue the trait on Back to Basics.) Here she is emulating Veronica Lake (except you can see her eye).

The Sun Java System Access Manager Policy Agent 2.2 for Sun Java System Application Server 9.0/Web Services is an authorization and authentication agent based on the draft JSR-196 specifications. JSR 196 is a draft of the Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers. It defines a standard service provider interface (SPI) with which a message level authentication agent can be developed for J2EE containers on either the client side or the server side. It provides an HTTP-based and SOAP-based agent for securing web services allowing:
  • A server side agent to verify message tokens or signatures on incoming requests and extract principal data or assertions before adding them to the client security context.
  • A client side agent to add security tokens to outgoing requests, sign messages, and interact with the trusted authority to locate targeted web service providers.
I am also working on the Federation and SAML Administration Guide for the 2007 release of Access Manager 7.1. A beta version of the doc is available on docs.sun.com. New to this release will be use cases and operations illustrating how to configure Access Manager for applicable federation and SAML interactions. Here is a list of configurations that will be integrated in the guide:
  • SAML 1.x:
    • How to setup an XML keystore
    • How to setup single sign-on between a SAML producer and a SAML consumer
    • How to setup a SiteAttributeMapper that will ask a SAML producer to include an attribute in a SAML assertion
  • Liberty ID-FF:
    • How to load IDFF metadata
    • How to configure trust between SP and IDP
    • How to turn on signing
  • Liberty ID-WSF:
    • How to access Liberty Authentication web service
    • How to access Liberty Discovery Service
    • How to configure Discovery Service to generate different (e.g. Bear, SAML) token
    • How to access IDPP service
    • How to develop and deploy new Liberty WSP on Access Manager
If you have any suggestions regarding other use cases that can be documented, please let me know.

Posted at 08:14AM Oct 20, 2006 by Michael Teger in Sun  |  Comments[4]

Comments:

I think christina aggulara is like more of the new version of veronica lake.She is realy insanely beautiful and i myself are doing a biography of Veronica lake.

Posted by 207.103.180.10 on March 25, 2008 at 02:45 PM PDT #

i think both women are absolutely GORGEOUS and the i love how christina is pulling for that old hollywood style, i love old hollywood :) Veronica Lake rox!!!!!!

Posted by kaylee on April 30, 2008 at 01:53 PM PDT #

i love veronica lake and its cool that x-tina is going in that direction . hope her career doesn't end like veronica's tho...

Posted by 3s15a79r62a2h3b9p00o on April 30, 2008 at 01:56 PM PDT #

wow

Posted by 87.208.251.3 on February 19, 2009 at 10:09 PM PST #

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