I had a note from the OpenSSO Meetup group the other day announcing an ‘OpenSSO Brukergruppemøte‘ (OpenSSO user group meeting, according to Google Translate) in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday April 22, 2010. Norway has long been a hub of OpenSSO activity; it’s great to see this continuing into OpenSSO’s post-Sun existence. Go along and say “Hei!” to Jonathan and the rest of the ForgeRock guys from me!
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OpenSSO Brukergruppemøte
Monday, April 12th, 2010The ForgeRock OpenSSO Roadshow comes to North America!
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
My friends at ForgeRock are bringing their series of OpenSSO user group meetings to the USA and Canada in late March/early April 2010. If you’re interested in where they’re taking open source identity, you should definitely take this opportunity to participate in one of the meetings – choose from New York (3/29), Toronto (3/30), Chicago (3/31) or San Francisco (4/1). I’ll likely take the drive up 280 to the SF event on April 1st – see you there!
OpenSSO User Group Meetings in Northern Europe – Nov/Dec 2009
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Although I’m no longer as active in the OpenSSO community as I once was, some things still catch my eye – for example, news of a series of user group meetings across Northern Europe in late November and early December. OpenSSO experts Allan Foster, Jonathan Scudder, Steve Ferris and Victor Ake (not a blogger amongst them!?!?) will be presenting on OpenSSO-related topics ranging from monitoring to the Fedlet, via entitlements and OAuth, in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, London and Brussels. Seems like SupportRock might be a name to watch in the world of OpenSSO…
Bookmarks for October 8th 2009
Friday, October 9th, 2009These are my links for October 8th 2009:
- The OpenSSO REST Interfaces in Black / White – DocTeger gives a comprehensive explanation of OpenSSO's REST-like identity services, with the usual cool music video at the end
- Directory "Engineering" – Ludo’s sketches – Nice – an OpenDS engineer has built a hardware dashboard for Sun's open source directory server
Bookmarks for September 29th 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009These are my links for September 29th 2009:
- Enabling Web Service Security With OpenSSO WSS Agent: Part 1 – Mrudul Uchil, Kamna Jain and Rick Palkovic explain how to secure a JAX-WS web service with OpenSSO.
- Federating to Salesforce CRM in Under 5 Minutes – The Smoking Monkey – The ever-creative Smoking Monkey (aka Daniel Raskin) shows how to hook OpenSSO up to SalesForce in less than five minutes.
OpenSSO Build 4.5
Saturday, July 5th, 2008 
It’s been a while since Build 4 of OpenSSO, as we work towards an early access (EA) build of Sun Federated Access Manager 8.0, OpenSSO’s commercial ‘twin’. Our plan designates OpenSSO build 5 as the FAM 8.0 EA, but we still have some minor issues to iron out before we’re ready for EA, hence the release of OpenSSO 1.0 Build 4.5.
Here are some of the new features in Build 4.5, compared to Build 4:
- The Fedlet – quick and easy Federation for SP’s, where you’d rather (slightly) modify your web app than deploy more infrastructure – much more on the Fedlet in the Sun blogosphere.
- Federation Validator – test harness for checking single sign-on between a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider and Service Provider.
- SiteMinder Integration – support for co-existence of OpenSSO and SiteMinder.
Many more enhancements are listed at the bottom of the Build 4.5 release notes. Watch the OpenSSO blogosphere for more details on these new features.
The more I work on OpenSSO, the more I realize the nuances of open source development. The fact that we released this ‘interim’ stable build between builds 4 and 5 is one example of this – the demand for build 4.5 has come from the OpenSSO community, which is now MUCH larger than the FAM team within Sun.
