C'est la vie !

I just watched a program with Jacques Pépin on public television (KQED). He was presenting a French recipe called lobster Fricassée (see here and search for lobster ) and as a preliminary explained what is the fastest way (thus least painful) to actually kill the beast. Quite interesting and surprising at the same time; I would not have expected to see him actually perform the execution on TV. But as he puts it, it’s either the fishmonger or you but someone has to kill it. At least his method was definitely very quick.

Very refreshing to watch that on American TV after reading articles about some stores that decided to stop selling live lobsters or stories about the ban on foie gras in Chicago and elsewhere.

In this video on our SDN (Sun Developer Network) channel, Aravindan (architect in the Access Manager team) demonstrates how one can easily secure both ends of a web services transaction: the web service consumer (aka. WSC) and the web service provider (aka. WSP).

It’s all standards based (Oasis’ SAML , Liberty Alliance’s ID-WSF ) and pretty much all is done within Netbeans with a few clicks to select the appropriate security mechanisms. An excellent integration job IMHO.

And if you’re one of those that really wants to understand how identity management is implemented in our Access Manager product you should definitely go check our new OpenSSO project!