November 11, 2009
Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons: Part 5, Identity Provider Initiated Fedlet Single Sign-On
Use the Firefox web browser to explore an OpenSSO identity provider initiated fedlet deployment.

November 4, 2009
Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons: Part 4, Service Provider Initiated Fedlet Single Sign-On
Use the Firefox web browser to explore an OpenSSO service provider initiated fedlet deployment.

October 19, 2009
Open-Source Starter Kit: Federating to Salesforce CRM With OpenSSO
This article explains how to simultaneously control access to in-house applications and those hosted by the SaaS provider Salesforce by using OpenSSO. (Login or registration required.)

September 28, 2009
Enabling Web Service Security With OpenSSO WSS Agent
Learn how to write a web service with JAX-WS, secure it with OpenSSO WSS Agent, and deploy it on Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, GlassFish, and WebSphere.

September 9, 2009
Enabling IP/Resource/Environment Based Authentication With OpenSSO
Detailed use cases explain how OpenSSO server and policy agents can improve a user's experience with access control.

September 4, 2009
Delegating XML Gateway Runtime Authorization to OpenSSO
Learn how access control rules defined in OpenSSO can be enforced at runtime by SecureSpan XML Gateway through its native OpenSSO integration agent.

August 20, 2009
Securing REST Web Services With OAuth
OAuth is a standard protocol for securing RESTful web services using simple HTTP headers. This article describes how an OpenSSO and it's extensions could be used to protect RESTful web services with an example.

May 1, 2009
A Planning Guide for Moving to LDAP as Naming Service in the Solaris OS
Moving from Network Information Service (NIS) or NIS+ to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)? Read this first. Topics include DIT design and implementation of a hybrid DIT.

April 22, 2009
Get Going With Starter Kits
Get up and running with free identity management starter kits. Complete with technical articles and video demos, starter kits help you solve specific business challenges that can easily be addressed through simple open-source development. The Federated Single Sign-On to Google Apps and OpenDS as a Naming Service for OpenSolaris starter kits are now available.

April 13, 2009
Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons, Part 3: Cross-Domain Single Sign-On
Explore the complex interaction between OpenSSO and the policy agent in a deployment designed for cross-domain single sign-on.

April 2, 2009
Using OpenSSO To Protect Java EE Applications, Part 1: Setting Up X.509 Client Authentication
Learn how to protect your Java EE applications with client certificates in OpenSSO.

March 19, 2009
Troubleshooting OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons
OpenSSO deployments can be complex and difficult to debug. In this article, learn how to troubleshoot your OpenSSO deployments with Firefox add-ons. Part 1 describes configuration and setup; Part 2 takes you through a simple single sign-on and policy protection example.

March 6, 2009
Leveraging Identity with GlassFish and MySQL
This paper describes what identity management is, how to install and configure Sun Identity Manager using GlassFish and MySQL, and compares the TCO for this solution to other vendors' offerings. (Registration required.)

February 27, 2009
OpenID.sun.com: A Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Reference Deployment
Read about the architecture and configuration of OpenID.sun.com, which runs on Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and enables Sun employees to access sites that leverage OpenID for authentication purposes. (Registration required.)

February 20, 2009
Maximizing Performance of the Sun Java System Directory Server
This article describes ways to improve the performance of the Sun Java System Directory Server, notably timeouts from Linux clients.

February 13, 2009
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.

See also Part 1, which introduces virtual federation and its business advantages.

January 16, 2009
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.

January 8, 2009
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.

January 5, 2009
Identities in a Service-Oriented World: Identity as a Service
This paper discusses current innovations within SOA and Web 2.0 environments, as well as security considerations. (Also available in German-language version.)