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If you work for Sun or you’re a Sun partner, here’s something really cool available to you...

Last week I had the chance to attend a new bootcamp Sun Learning has just released: the Federation Bootcamp . It’s everything one will ever needs to know about identity federation and Sun’s Federation Manager (FM). And believe me, there is a LOT to cover. Here’s the list of the modules covered in this bootcamp:

1. Identity Federation Concepts

2. Standards & Specifications

3. Federation Product Intro

4. Implementation Federation Frameworks

5. Liberty ID-WSF

6. Programming & Customization

7. Security

8. Privacy

9. LDAP back end for FM

10. High Availability (i.e. load balancing etc.)

All these modules have 2 components: a lecture that will teach you the fundamentals and prepare you for the second part: the lab. The labs were really what I was looking for since I’m well aware of the theory part (I guess participating to all the Liberty Alliance meetings does help ). The labs are really hands-on, lots of installation, configuration and messing up with FM. Here are some examples of what you learn to do:

11. Deploying FM - setting up security

12. Adding & configuring the SAML2 plugin

13. Deploying LDAP with FM

14. Setting up load balancing etc.

So again if you’re at Sun or if you’re a Sun employee and you’re interested in federated identity you have to take this bootcamp (drop me an email and I’ll forward the contact people).

In the next blog entries I will describe in more details some of the key points this Federation Bootcamp touched upon.

Stay tuned!