It's Friday afternoon, time for some fun! We've put together a neat little game where you can protect your enterprise from the like of disgruntled former employees, Sarbox gremlins and the deadly auditors with the help of Sun's identity management products: Identity Hero! Here's a screenshot:
Marina is covering JavaOne 2008 for the Sun Developer Network - she's written a review of our Monday OpenSSO session, which also appears in the today's 'JavaOne Today' newspaper. Lucas Jellema at AMIS Technology also wrote a nice review, even including a screenshot of OpenSSO.
If you're at JavaOne, come along to the Sun stand in the pavilion - we're on pod 181, just under the poster of an old geezer with a red pickup. I'll be here today (Wednesday) and tomorrow (Thursday) from 11am to 2pm, but feel free to stop by any time the pavilion is open for a demo and a chat.
If you're following OpenSSO at all, you can't have failed to notice the recent buzz around the Fedlet - from Daniel (complete with screencast), Eve Mark D, Mark H, Tatsuo, Derrick, Marina and Daniel at Sun to Coté at RedMonk and Enrico at Tenthline.
Briefly, the 'Fedlet' is a package that a SAML 2.0 identity provider can create to quickly federation-enable a small service provider. The idea is that, if you're running a single web application, you're not going to want to deploy a whole 'nother server to run a standalone service provider. What you want is a little package of code and configuration to federation-enable your web app. You want the Fedlet.
I've been wrapped up in demos and travel for the past month or so, so I haven't had much of a chance to play with the Fedlet. Since I'm planning to demo it in my session at CommunityOne on Monday, I thought I'd better do so - I set aside this afternoon to get it working. Turns out I was a little pessimistic there - here's what I did, in less than an hour:
cvs -q update -dP)
ant clean && ant server-war)
-client JVM option to -server, as detailed in the release notes!)
When you spend your time in the weeds of a project, you always half expect any given step to fail due to some issue or another. Perhaps some recent fix destabilized something; perhaps some errant process has eaten my laptop's memory; whatever. So it was extremely gratifying when all of the above passed off without a hitch. I won't tell you what I muttered under my breath as the federation validator completed and gave me the thumbs up, but the second word was "cool!" 
I mentioned our upcoming CommunityOne session back when I posted my Spring/Summer schedule; now I have a time and place, since the CommunityOne schedule was just published. We'll be presenting "OpenSSO Workshop: Creating Federated Relationships with Software as a Service, Social Networking, and Web 2.0 Applications" on Monday May 5 at 4pm in Hall E 135.
By the way, CommunityOne is free of charge to attend, though you do need to register. See you there!
Nice pic of me kicking off my OpenSSO preso at FISL - thanks, boaglio!
Fellow blogger and Glassfish marketeer Ken Drachnik took this appealing (appalling?) photo of me doing a Steve Ballmer impression at a post-FISL dinner... More FISL photos from Ken.
As promised, here are the slides to my presentation this evening at FISL 9.0. I've had a great time here in Brazil - wonderful people, fabulous food and kicking cachaça. I'll definitely be back sometime in the future.
As I just blogged over at The Aquarium, Aravindan, Lakshman and Marina just published part 3 of their series on the new identity services functionality available now in OpenSSO and coming soon in Sun Federated Access Manager 8.0: Securing Applications With Identity Services, Part 3: User Attributes.
User attributes are key for delivering personalized services, and are often the main reason for authenticating the user in the first place. Go read the article - whether you're a RESTafarian or on the SOAPy side - you can quickly and easily put OpenSSO's identity services to work.
Had to get a shot of this - Radia was my SEED mentor a little while ago - now she's been commemorated in the naming of the press room here at FISL. Kind of appropriate for a pioneer in communications
Wandering around FISL, I keep seeing gaggles of schoolkids with XO Laptops. Then I stumbled on the LEC booth:
Some very satisfied customers there!
This will only be useful if you know MUCH more Japanese than I do, but here's Yasushi Iwakata introducing OpenSSO at a Java Hot-Topic Seminar in Tokyo, as blogged by Takayuki Okazaki:
You'll be able to download the slides soon - I'll update this entry with the link.
As he mentions in the video, Iwakata-san has also been working on an OpenSSO Extension for Hitachi Finger Vein Authentication. You can find the code in the OpenSSO CVS at opensso/extensions/authnhfvb, or browse it online. I'll write more about this extension when I get back home from Brazil.
I'm sitting in seat 20A of Delta flight 101 from Atlanta to Buenos Aires, catching up with the blogging backlog that built up during the RSA Conference. I usually compose my blog entries directly in Roller's web UI, but, since there bain't be no Interweb up here, I'm using Flock's built-in blog editor, and a very comfortable experience it is. I can type up the bulk of the text in the 'Editor' view, tweak formatting in 'Source' view and get a pretty good idea of how it will look in 'Preview', fiipping back and forth as I go.
While this is very convenient, what is really cool is that I have Flock in 'offline' mode, but it allows me to load pages from its cache, so, since most everything I've looked at lately is cached, I can just go to a URL, and I see it exactly as if I was connected. This lets me look up links, check references, even view source to remind myself of the formatting I use when posting over at The Aquarium. In fact, it's probably more productive than being connected, since there's no email to distract me
ConnectId
Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership
Eric Norlin's Weblog
Jaime Cardoso's Weblog
Jamie Lewis
Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog
The Identity Corner
tnt
xmldap
A Twisted World
Anyway
C'est la vie!
Capitan Holy Hippie's journal
Discovering Identity
Greg Matter
Identity Management Buzz
Ludo's sketches
Mirror World
On Identity and Security
On the Java road...
Pushing String
Scott Jolly's Weblog
Tkudo's weblog (Google translation)
Web Services Contraptions
Wizard of IdM
www.flickr.com
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