OpenSSO Technical Articles, Demos, and FAQs

New Demos

OpenSSO Federation Validator

See how simple it is to federate partners and quickly validate the federation connection via the OpenSSO federation validator.
OpenSSO Federation Validator

OpenSSO Enterprise:The Fedlet.NET

A demonstration of the Sun OpenSSO Enterprise Fedlet for .NET, the lightest, fastest way to federate in the world!
The Fedlet.NET

OpenSSO Preview: OAuth Token Service

Use the OpenSSO OAuth Token Service to secure your applications.
OAuth Token Service

Technical Articles


  • Google Apps Starter Kit
    A step-by-step demonstration on how users can gain direct access to Google Apps based on their enterprise login. This enables organizations that have selected Google Apps as their hosted collaboration suite to deploy OpenSSO for rapid federated single sign-on in minutes.
  • OpenSSO Configuration Diagnostic Tool
    The OpenSSO Configuration Diagnostic Tool validates your configured instance and environment. Use the tool to verify the configuration settings and identify any possible configuration issues. This article provides instructions for obtaining and running the tool.
  • Perspectives on Quality Assurance for OpenDS
    OpenDS is Sun's open-source project for developing a next-generation directory service. In this article, QA lead Gary Williams elaborates on the project's testing aspect: opportunities, challenges, guidelines, practices, measurements.
  • Federated Single Sign-On for Salesforce in OpenSSO
    Learn how to implement federated SSO for Salesforce CRM software with an open-standards-based approach, featuring OpenSSO as the identity provider. That way, you preserve the confidentiality of user login credentials and eliminate the need for multiple logins.
  • Deploying OpenSSO on GlassFish Application Server
    Go open source for identity management! Deployment of OpenSSO on GlassFish application server results in an ideal environment for developing secure Web applications. This article describes the basic deployment process.
  • Integrating Applications With OpenSSO
    Learn the four ways in which to integrate Web applications with OpenSSO: through the Policy Agent, a reverse proxy, the client SDK, and identity services. In addition, this article features a Ruby on Rails sample application and shows you how to secure its login process with identity services.
  • Federated Identity Through the Eyes of the Deployer
    What identity-related challenges do application deployers face? What considerations are involved in setting up a single sign-on solution so that users can authenticate elsewhere before accessing your application? What are the popular federated identity protocols? What questions must you ponder before adopting a standardized solution? Find the answers, along with tips and guidelines, in this article.
  • Single Logout: A Demo
    This article is a follow up to how Project Lightbulb has grown, what constitutes a Circle of Trust, and how SLO works.
  • Building Identity-Enabled Web Services
    Sun's identity experts answer that question of how to ensure secure access to Web services across enterprises and preserve privacy of sensitive data , along with sample code and suggestions for products and technologies.
Enabling Virtual Federation With OpenSSO
  • Enabling Virtual Federation With OpenSSO, Part 1: Introduction
    What challenges are businesses facing in identity federation? How does OpenSSO's virtual federation capability tackle them so that your identity and federation infrastructure is simple, secure, and standardized? Read this article for the answers.
  • Enabling Virtual Federation With OpenSSO, Part 2: A Tutorial
    Configure OpenSSO for virtual federation and for secure attributes exchange. Enjoy the benefits of a secure, loosely coupled, and centralized federation solution. Read on for details and an overview of the end-to-end virtual federation process.
Protecting Java EE Applications With OpenSSO Policy Agents
  • Protecting Java EE Applications With OpenSSO Policy Agents, Part 1: Basic Steps
    Writing security code and configuring the security model for Web applications can be cumbersome. The open-source project OpenSSO offers many security-related capabilities for applications: authentication, authorization, single sign on, identity services, security for Web services. This article describes how to easily protect Web applications with the OpenSSO Policy Agents in just a few steps.
From the Trenches at Sun Identity
Securing Applications With Identity Services
  • Securing Applications With Identity Services, Part 3: User Attributes
    Identity services are interfaces that support authentication, authorization, and other related services with SOAP or REST technology. This article steps you through the procedure for obtaining, through the attribute service, the attributes of users whose tokens are passed in service calls.
Sun and Microsoft Interoperate for Web Authentication
  • Sun and Microsoft Interoperate for Web Authentication, Part 1
    by Pat Patterson and Marina Sum - This article, the first in a three-part series, elaborates on how to integrate Active Server Pages (ASP) and ASP.NET applications into an SSO environment with Access Manager and the Policy Agent Microsoft Internet IIS.
Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons
Developing Secure Applications With Sun Java System Access Manager
More on Sun Java System Access Manager

Featured Demos


OpenSSO Federation Validator

See how simple it is to federate partners and quickly validate the federation connection via the OpenSSO federation validator.
OpenSSO Federation Validator

OpenSSO Enterprise:The Fedlet.NET

A demonstration of the Sun OpenSSO Enterprise Fedlet for .NET, the lightest, fastest way to federate in the world!
The Fedlet.NET

OpenSSO Preview: OAuth Token Service

Use the OpenSSO OAuth Token Service to secure your applications.
OAuth Token Service

OpenSSO Installation

This demonstration shows how to deploy OpenSSO on a Glassfish container. Watch Now!

Simple Federation and the Federation Validator

This demonstration shows how to:

  • Deploy OpenSSO
  • Configure OpenSSO
  • Configure an Identity Provider (IDP)
  • Configure an Service Provider (SP)
  • Create a Circle of Trust between the IDP and SP
  • Validate the federated connection

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The Fedlet

This demonstration shows how to generate and deploy a Fedlet, the lightest weight way to federate in the world.
Watch Now!

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Tutorials


Identity Suite Tutorials
 Applying Web-Service Security to EJB Applications
Downloadble Lab Exercises

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https://opensso.dev.java.net...

Sun Java System Access Manager FAQs

http://developers.sun.com/identity...

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