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Wednesday Aug 27, 2008
Integrating Applications With OpenSSO
Posted at 02:50PM Aug 27, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[0] Sun in Second Life
In the past, chats have been given to developers on various topics of Java programming, especially to beginners. These are always fun events because the developer community in Second Life is so enthusiastic about learning the Java platform, and they are so appreciative of the time Sun employees spend talking to them in SL. This brings me to why environments like SL so valuable to our company and the community at large: communication. Most of interaction with developers is in the form of email: responses directly from articles and blogs, and comments in the feedback form on the site. But the atmosphere of a virtual world is quite different, and encourages dialog in a wonderful way.  While it's true we are not person to person in the material sense,
we are avatar to avatar, which brings in new dynamics. Some might argue
that this is so artificial as to be considered ridiculous, but I have
to argue that it brings comfortable anonymity to those who might
otherwise be shy, uncomfortable speaking in large groups, sneaking in
Java technology on the sly outside of their current jobs, or just
otherwise not social. In addition, those who are more social and
comfortable are not held back in anyway. Lastly, virtual worlds are
just darned convenient and bring people together who otherwise would
never meet because of geographical distance, time constraints, etc.
Sun's space in Second Life provides us the opportunity to share our technologies and programs with a wider audience of developers, but even more importantly it allows us to talk to you directly, or at least avatar to avatar, to get your feedback and thoughts on what we're doing, how to use our technologies, and how we can help you grow your business and careers. It is exciting and enlightening to talk to developers in this way and get your feedback, hear your questions and concerns, and have the opportunity to respond in kind. These interactions in Second Life are two-way with synergy. I believe we all benefit from the interaction. I'll look forward to seeing your avatars inworld!Posted at 01:04PM Aug 27, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[0]
Monday Aug 25, 2008
California men claim they found IdentiCat
Whenever someone reports sighting the hairy beast of yore (details always fuzzy) or capturing the hirsute humanoid on film (images always grainy), it scares up a dubious debate of international proportions. Friday was just the latest episode in the IdentiCat show, as unreal as it may be. Two men who claim to have stumbled across an IdentiCat in the woods of Sun Island in Second Life indignantly stood by their story at a news conference in Palo Alto during which they offered a picture as evidence and acknowledged they wouldn't mind making a few bucks from the "find."
"Everyone who has talked down to us is going to eat their words," predicted Jamie Nelson, Director of Access Management and Federation at Sun Microsystems. Nelson and Daniel Raskin, a Product Line Manager at Sun, announced the discovery in early August to close friends and co-workers. Although they did not consider themselves devoted IdentiCat trackers before then, they have since started offering weekend search expeditions in Sun Island for L$499. The specimen they took a picture of, the men say, was one of several Cat-like creatures they spotted cavorting in the woods. IdentiCats, thought to be fokelore until today, are famous for their innovative thoughts on identity management and gifted abilities of identity prescience. As they faced a skeptical audience of several hundred journalists and IdentiCat fans that included one curiosity seeker in a Chewbacca suit, Nelson and Raskin were joined Friday by Pat Patterson, head of a group called Searching for IdentiCat. Other IdentiCat hunters call Patterson a cheap huckster looking for media attention. Nelson and Raskin plan to release a video of the IdentiCat in the next few weeks and have announced that they will be hosting a coming out party and presentation by the mysterious IdentiCat in late September around access management, federation and secure web services. Stay tuned for more information. Posted at 08:25PM Aug 25, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[0] Customers & Sun Fans!
We need your votes for the 2008 SOA World Readers Choice Awards! Sun has many products nominated included OpenSSO, Java CAPS and Glassfish. Voting takes 5 minutes and we'd really appreciate your support. Also, please forward this along to friends and other Sun supporters Happy voting! Posted at 02:27PM Aug 25, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[0] Update IDM Suite & Directory Server EE Datasheets
The DSEE Datasheet has also been updtaed to include updates for the 6.3 release! Posted at 09:59AM Aug 25, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[0]
Friday Aug 22, 2008
From the Trenches at Sun Identity, Part 6: Identity Services for Securing Web Applications
Posted at 11:45AM Aug 22, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[0]
Thursday Aug 21, 2008
OpenSSO Early Access Free Training
The OpenSSO Deployment course - a series of five downloadable, self-paced labs - takes you through a complex OpenSSO deployment. You deploy two Apache Tomcat servers, SSL-enable them, install a software load balancer, install OpenSSO into the environment, and configure OpenSSO for session failover. Then you install an example web server and an example application server, and install Policy Agent sofware to see how OpenSSO protects web sites and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. This course uses OpenSSO Build 4.5, which provides identical functionality to OpenSSO Express Build 5. Other deployment components include Apache Tomcat version 6.0.14, Sun Java System Web Server version 7.0, and Glassfish application server version 2. Get the Training First, sign up for an account at My Sun if you do not already have one. (Sun employees can use their Sun e-mail address and LDAP password to log in.) Then access the course from Sun Learning's lab portal. Get Help While Taking the Training Since this training is available at no cost to you, the Ask the Expert feature of Sun Learning's lab portal is inactive for this OpenSSO Deployment course. So use the OpenSSO community to get help instead. E-mail the mailing list, post to the forum, or use the IIRC channel. Posted at 01:42PM Aug 21, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[0]
Wednesday Aug 20, 2008
Sun announced OpenSSO Express on July 23, 2008 at OSCON
 At OSCON on July 23, Sun announced it's new release of OpenSSO Express. This is the industry's first enterprise support for open source identity management and web single sign-on software. OpenSSO Express is a comprehensive, enterprise-class support and
indemnification for OpenSSO, the open source code-base from which Sun
Access Manager is derived. Sun is making its Sun Access Manager
offering even more attractive to enterprises by extending support to
also include OpenSSO Express, early access versions of the next Access
Manager release that have been fully tested and certified by the
OpenSSO community.Read the feature story Posted at 10:56AM Aug 20, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[1]
Tuesday Aug 12, 2008
Setting Up OpenDS 1.0.0 as a Naming Service for the OpenSolaris OS, Part 1 of 2: Basic Steps
OpenDS, an open-source, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory-server project (henceforth, OpenDS), is written entirely in the Java programming language. The project, which just shipped its release 1.0.0, is gaining momentum with an ever-growing community of committers, contributors, and users. This article, Part 1 of a two-part series, describes how to install and configure OpenDS as a naming service for UNIX clients that run the OpenSolaris Operating System, Sun's open-source operating system. The procedures in this series also apply to the Solaris 10 OS, which is free for download. Part 2 steps you through the advanced configurations: setting up the directory service for UNIX user authentication, configuring for Digest-MD5 or CRAM-MD5 authentication, configuring clients, and so forth. Posted at 01:06PM Aug 12, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[0]
Monday Aug 11, 2008
OpenSSO Project wants to hear from you
Posted at 01:49PM Aug 11, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events | Comments[0]
Monday Aug 04, 2008
Securing Applications With Identity Services, Part 4: Single Sign-On and Logout
Note: In typical deployments, authentication is performed by a centralized server that can be distributed across multiple machines. All applications would then rely on that server for authentication and log in users with SSO. Another advantage offered by a centralized server is that it isolates the applications from authentication mechanisms, which range from the simple user-name/password credential scheme to complex approaches, such as multifactor authentication and federation. Before proceeding, do read the first three parts of this series for the background on identity services and other related details:
As in Parts 1 through 3, we assume that you are familiar with the NetBeans IDE and that you have installed the latest build of OpenSSO.
Afterwards, configure OpenSSO on the application server in which you
will deploy the application. Feel free to deploy on another application
server on another machine. Coming Attractions Posted at 05:59PM Aug 04, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events | Comments[0] |
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The Identity Management Suite Datasheet has been updated and now includes Role manager.
Deploying OpenSSO servers in a simple environment is trivially easy. But throw secure sockets layer (SSL), load balancers, multiple servers, session failover, and Policy Agents to the mix, and deployment becomes a little more complex. 
The 
The Identity Services section in 
