Superpatterns

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!

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.

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.