Superpatterns

By now, you're probably familiar with the term 'tab sweep', particularly if you've read either of Tim or Rich's blogs. You end the week with a bunch of tabs open in your browser that you need to blog about, so you do. Here's my first...

• First up, Rajeev's Blog. There's some great stuff there from the past few weeks - my favourites are How to Integrate OpenSSO with Salesforce.com via SAML and the OpenSSO QuickStart prototype. If you have any interest at all in OpenSSO, you need to subscribe to Rajeev (or to Planet OpenSSO, which aggregates Rajeev's Blog with a whole host of others).
• Next is the transcript from last week's OpenSSO 'Ask The Experts' session at the Sun Developer Network. There's some great stuff in there - from the scheduled release date for OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 (October 31st) to some low level detail on configuring OpenLDAP as a user store for OpenSSO.
• While we're over at Sun Developer Network, Sidharth and Marina have an article on Deploying OpenSSO on GlassFish Application Server - great stuff for folks picking up OpenSSO for the first time, with handy tips for established OpenSSO fans too - some very neat command line alternatives for configuring GlassFish and deploying the OpenSSO WAR file.

There - I feel lighter now I got all that off my chest. Have a good weekend, everyone!

The Sun Developer Network's Marina Sum spent some time recently talking to my fellow Federated Access Manager architect Rajeev Angal about Virtual Federation, a new feature forthcoming in Sun Federated Access Manager 8.0 (but available now, of course, in OpenSSO). Virtual Federation promises to simplify federation by allowing legacy applications to interact across enterprise boundaries via a SAML 'tunnel'.

Read the interview for an overview of Virtual Federation; this article has the gory details under the old name 'Secure Attribute Exchange'.

If you've been watching blogs.sun.com carefully over the past few days, you'll have noticed new blogs popping up from Aravindan Ranganathan and Rajeev Angal. Aravindan and Rajeev are fellow architects on the Access Manager/Federation Manager team - you might have read this interview that Rajeev did for Sun's Inner Circle newsletter a little while ago.

Definitely blogs to watch if you are interested in Access Manager, Federation Manager and OpenSSO. I'm happy to admit that Aravindan and Rajeev know the inner workings of that code much better than I do!

Welcome, Aravindan and Rajeev!