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A compilation of today's (yesterday's!) news of interest:
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From the OpenSSO team, there is now a free (just need an MySun Account) Self-Paced Downloadable Lab for learning how to use OpenSSO. The course is based on OpenSSO Express Build 5. This course uses OpenSSO Build 4.5, which provides identical functionality to OpenSSO Express Build 5 which supports Apache Tomcat, Sun WebServer and GlassFish v2. Check out SuperPat, Rajeev, or go direct to the source, David. From Dave, presentations at OpenSource Days 2008 on Apache Roller and SocialSite. Plus Dave's Commentary on a note by Matt Asay on SocialSite. From Kevin a report on Mural (the Master Data Management project at GlassFish) on its Support for MySQL. From Ron our security master, an entry showing how to Use JACC to Determine Caller Roles, with detailed code snippets. Finally, not our usual topic but the Engadget piece on the Google Phone got me in Gadgets mode: NYT report on Dream, Treo Pro, BlackBerry Black, HTC Touch and Xperia X1, WiFi PAN vs Bluetooth and Lenovo IdeaPad u8. I don't know how people can track all these! but then, I am not their target audience... check out my Cell Phone :-) |
A compilation of today's interesting news:
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From JetBrains team - the release of the first Milestone of IntelliJ IDEA 8.0; including GlassFish Server support (of course); it claims to be a substantial revamp from 7.0. Arun shows how to Access Metro from MS Silverlight. I'll come clean - I am using Silverlight to watch the Badminton Games from the Beijing Olympics. OpenSSO is now available in the First Express Build - b5. Sun's Press Release on OEM Deals around VirtualBox; OEM is one more way to monetize Open Source investment - we are seeing similar opportunities around our middleware OSS offerings. Barton reports from DebCon in Mar del Plata; it looks like there is a good chance of OpenJDK being included in Lenny; keep fingers crossed. Steve (Wilson) demoes xVM Server to redmonk's Cote. |
The OpenSSO Project is soliciting feedback on their Early Access Build -- OpenSSO Express Build 5. With the release of this build, community members now have the opportunity to participate in the Early Access (EA) program for Sun's next commercial offering. Review the Early Access documentation and hammer away at Express Build 5! Send your EA feedback to opensso.eafeedback@dev.java.net so we can make the product perfect. Thanks in advance!
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More pieces of how Sun leverages OpenSource into Enterprise Offerings: Sun OpenDS 1.0 is now in OpenSSO Express - check out Nick, Rajeev, or... pelegri% jar -tf opensso.war | grep -i opends .... WEB-INF/lib/OpenDS.jar |
We announced
WebSynergy
at JavaOne;
we were expecting to launch the public site with transparent builds shortly after that but
the end of (our fiscal) year and the summer
have slowed us down.
I think we will soon be able to show public progress;
in the meantime we are making internal progress, together with
the
Liferay team and with add-ons.
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As an example of the type of synergy across our projects,
Ajit describes how to
Integrating WebSynergy with OpenSSO on GFv3,
showing how to download and assemble the pieces and how to configure
OpenSSO |
To celebrate the announcement of OpenSSO Express, here is an updated list of Sun products that build directly on GlassFish Server - let me know if I'm missing any.
Transparent development opens the development milestones to users. Often these milestones are just a path to using the final releases - as in GlassFish Enterprise Support - but for some users the milestones may have the right combination of features/stability/timeliness and they "just want support for it". And today, to address this need for Open SSO users, Sun announced OpenSSO Express.
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Sun OpenSSO Express provides support (in standard, premium and premium plus levels) for the stable milestones in OpenSSO bundled, at no extra cost, with the support of final releases of Sun Access Manager, Identity Management or Java Enterprise System. |
The Express model is applicable to any open source projects, but, so far,
it is only available for OpenSSO.
Details on Sun OpenSSO Express
are available at
here
and it can be downloaded
here
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Over the past few days, the number of participants registered at opensso.dev.java.net passed the 700 mark. It was almost exactly a year ago that we passed 400, so we're currently adding new members at the rate of nearly one a day! |
Just to clarify, you can download the OpenSSO binaries and check out the source code without any kind of sign-up whatsoever. You only need to register to file issues, subscribe to the mailing lists and start submitting patches.
Much more on signing up to OpenSSO, its mailing lists and other avenues for participation at my blog entry on the same topic.
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Just blogged by Jeff Bounds: Verisign Identity Protection and OpenSSO. Jeff, a Sun SE working out of Atlanta, walks through the process of creating a custom authentication module for Verisign Identity Protection (VIP), allowing holders of VIP credentials to login to OpenSSO. Key quote: "Building an Authentication Module for OpenSSO was easier than I thought". |
If you have an idea for a custom authentication module for OpenSSO, give it a shot - there is plenty of help out there, and we'll be happy to add your module to OpenSSO as an extension.
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The fourth interview in Sun Developer Network technical author Marina Sum's 'From the Trenches' series, sees her talking to Federated Access Manager architect Rajeev Angal about Virtual Federation, a new approach to allowing legacy applications to interact across enterprise boundaries. Read the interview for an overview of Virtual Federation, dig a little deeper into the technology (Secure Attribute Exchange is the old name for Virtual Federation), then go grab the latest OpenSSO build and try it out! |
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As I mentioned on my blog yesterday, if you're following OpenSSO at all, you can't have failed to notice the recent chat around the Fedlet, a nifty mechanism for federation-enabling web applications. Briefly, the 'Fedlet' is a package that a SAML 2.0 identity provider can create to quickly federation-enable a small service provider. If you're trying to federation-enable a single web application, you need the Fedlet. |
Here is the buzz:
• Watch the FEDLET Now! REALLY! - Daniel Raskin
• Federation in the diminutive - Eve Maler
• The Fedlet has Arrived - Mark Dixon
• Latest news on the Fedlet - Mark Herring
• OpenSSO の最新ビルドに Fedlet が入ってる - Tatsuo Kudo
• Fedlet comes out with a (Head) Bang - Derrick Harcey
• How to Efficiently Accomplish Identity Federation With Fedlets - Marina Sum
• Finally...The Fedlet has Arrived - Daniel Tse
• The Fedlet - Sun Identity Buzz Episode - Michael Coté
• The Fedlet: Federated SSO Made Easy - Enrico Bianco
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I'll be presenting OpenSSO and the Fedlet at CommunityOne on Monday May 5 2008 at 4pm in Hall E 135. As you must be aware by now, CommunityOne is free of charge to attend, though you do need to register. See you there! |
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Over the past few months, Aravindan Ranganathan, Lakshman Abburi and Marina Sum have been working on a series of articles covering the new identity services functionality available now in OpenSSO and coming soon in Sun Federated Access Manager 8.0. This week sees the publication of part 3, covering retrieval of user attributes. One notable feature of the series is it's presentation of both SOAP/WSDL and REST patterns for accessing OpenSSO's identity services. Which do you use, and why? |
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Third in Sun Developer Network tech author Marina Sum's series of interviews with Sun's identity team is Daniel Raskin, senior product line manager for access and federation management at Sun. Daniel lifts the lid on some of the cool new features coming up in Sun Federated Access Manager 8.0 (and, of course, available NOW in OpenSSO) specifically designed to simplify federation deployments, including Fedlets, Virtual Federation, the Federation Validator and more. |
Read the article for the inside scoop!
GlassFish and OpenSSO play very similar roles; they are OpenSource, transparent, community-driven efforts to create enterprise products, except OpenSSO has an extra twist...
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GlassFish is the Community for SJS AppServer 9.x and OpenSSO does the same for Sun Federated Access Manager (FAM). The twist is that FAM is not yet out. FAM is the combination of the Access Manager and the Federation Manager. Once FAM is out, you can say: GF/SJSAS == OpenSSO/FAM. |
So, go ahead and Download, Evaluate and Deploy OpenSSO!
I managed to beat most of the the OpenSSO blogging pack this time (Tatsuo got in just before me) - OpenSSO Build 4 is now ready for download. Here's some of what's new:
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See the release notes for specific deployment details, and, if you haven't tried OpenSSO before, check out the Getting Started wiki page for handy hints.
