Identity Management

Interact with the identity management community and share insights and information and collaborate with your peers. Listed below are some essential identity management community resources.

Forums

Visit these identity management-related forums to get help or give help.

Open-Source Identity Management

The Identity Community is where developers can find new and innovative open-source projects. Register to download source code, deploy, develop, and contribute. Learn more about OpenSSO and OpenDS, the open-source communities for Sun Java System Access Manager and Sun Java System Directory Server, respectively.

User Groups

Identity Management User Group
Join a local Sun software user group in your area to exchange ideas and tips with your counterparts and interact with the product teams at Sun.

Java User Groups
A Java User Group (JUG) is a community of people who share a common interest in Java technology and meet on a regular basis to share technical ideas and information. Find a local or virtual JUG.

SDN Share

SDN Share is the place to submit technical tips, code samples, or articles and accumulate points for Amazon.com gift certificates. Interact with peers through voting and comments.

Community Events

Events
Developer events covering tools and technologies serve developers year round and from around the world, and provide ideal networking opportunities.

Blogs

Read these identity management-related blogs from blogs.sun.com that mention Access Manager, Directory Server, Federation Manager, or Identity Manager.

Also visit these blogs of interest:

Identity Management Buzz
Get the latest news from the Sun identity management team.

Federation and access management experts

Mark Dixon: Discovering Identity
A practice lead for Sun's identity management business shares his lessons learned about the broad science and magic of identity management.
Pat Patterson: Superpatterns
A technical architect for Sun Java System Access Manager focuses on identity management and federation.
Daniel Raskin: Virtual Daniel
Sun senior product line manager aims at delivering to enterprises open-source, intuitive, and simple solutions for federated access management.
Robin Wilton: Esoterica
A corporate architect in Sun's CTO office provides insights on security and identity that both techies and business minded folks can appreciate.

Directory service experts

Mark Craig: Margin Notes
The engineering manager of Sun's Directory Integration Team writes about the documentation and wikis for Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition and OpenDS.
Ludovic Poitou: Ludo's Sketches
The OpenDS community lead sounds off on the engineering aspects of LDAP, Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition, and OpenDS: builds, events, related tools.

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