Lightbulb is Dead; Long Live OpenSSO Extensions!

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Last October, we released the first SAML 2.0 implementation in PHP, codenamed ‘Project Lightbulb’ (because Lightbulb fits into LAMP) and a sub-project of OpenSSO. In the few months since then, other folks have proposed similar extensions to OpenSSO, and the ‘Lightbulb’ name has looked increasingly anachronistic, particularly since the core OpenSSO project has always fully supported LAMP with its Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat policy agents.

Today, we launch OpenSSO Extensions, OpenSSO’s code incubator, with three initial modules:

So - what is an OpenSSO Extension? Well, it’s any piece of code that either

  • extends OpenSSO to provide new functionality, for example, the OpenID identity provider, or
  • interfaces with OpenSSO, extending other systems, such as the PHP Client SDK and SAML 2.0 relying party.

If you have an idea for extending OpenSSO in an interesting way, then click here to participate!

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Comments

Robin Wilton

So it only takes one blogger to change a lightbulb… ;^)

I think the fact that you’ve got three incubator extensions already there to launch speaks for itself. Long may it continue!

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