Superpatterns

Tonnes and tonnes (just back from the very metric New Zealand) of OpenSSO news from the last few weeks, but this just in - OpenSSO training maestro David Goldsmith has just released a FREE (as in beer) training course: WSPL-AM-3508-D: OpenSSO Deployment. As David mentions on the OpenSSO Training Page, all you need to do is grab a My Sun account (if you haven't already got one) and get stuck in.

I've been in to take a look around, and it's classy stuff - a 138 page student workbook plus a downloadable VM with Solaris 10, all the tarballs you'll need and even Solaris Zones and ZFS all set up to let you skip sections, roll back from mistakes, try alternate scenarios - whatever you like. If you've been itching to move beyond the basic "Deploy WAR file, configure identity provider, create Fedlet, deploy Fedlet, marvel at its magnificence" recipe and into the strange and exciting world of multiple OpenSSO instances, load balancers, failover and more, let David be your guide...

A while ago I blogged about the Access Manager 'Configuration and Customization' training course in Burlington, MA, presented by Allan Foster. Well, I've just heard that Allan is presenting it again in Amersfoort in the Netherlands, on January 22nd. If you're in Western Europe and you want a great grounding in AM, you might just want to go...

There are a small number of places available on the Sun Java System Access Manager: Configuration and Customization (AM-3480) at Sun's training center in Burlington, MA the week of Dec 4. This presentation of the course is taught by the most excellent Allan Foster; Allan taught the recent Federation Manager Boot Camp course on which Hubert heaped lavish praise, so you know you're in good hands.

If you're in the North-East and you feel your AM knowledge is lacking, then take a look and consider signing up - your department may well have some training budget that needs to be used or lost before the end of the year...