Today is the official release date of Sun's OpenSSO Enterprise product, the 8.0 version of the product set formerly known as the "Access Manager/Federation Manager", which was publicly announced on September 30th.
So, what's new in this release?
- The Fedlet - a lightweight way for service providers to quickly federate with a SAML 2.0 identity provider
- Multi-Protocol Hub - allows companies that are members of a circle of trust to speak different federation protocols
- Identity Services - invoke AAA services using your IDE of choice or any programming language (e.g. Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, etc.)
- Express Builds - deploy next-generation features from the OpenSSO community with the same support and indemnification provided with commercial releases
- Ease of Use - new task-based UI for common federation-related operations
- Ease of Install - just drop the WAR file into your servlet-container of choice, hit it with a browser and, in the simplest case, supply admin passwords
- Much more, including: centralized server configuration (no more AMConfig.properties text file), centralized agent configuration (no more AMAgent.properties text files).
Technorati Tags: Sun Microsystems, Identity, Identity Management, Digital Identity, OpenSSO
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