OpenSAML user discussion

["Ambarish Mitra" <>]

Ok. I figured out a way to send HTTP requests.

Now, the question is: the remote web service returned me a SOAP response,
and this has an SAML assertion. How do I parse this response? At least, what
are the first steps?

This may be a trivial question, but having no documentation is creating this
trouble. After my project, I plan to help the opensaml group in
documentation.


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cantor 
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Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:59 PM
To: 'Ambarish Mitra'; 

Subject: RE: New to opensaml


> The first thing is: I do not find good documentation on
> opensaml at all.

Because it doesn't exist. The new version will be more documented, but not
in a "how SAML works" sort of way.

> Is there a document listing the functions
> exported, the basic description of those, and also possibly a
> tutorial like first - steps?

There is no tutorial. Assuming you're using Java, you can generate javadocs
quite easily with the ant script, and they're mostly up to date. There are a
couple of unit tests. That's about it.

-- Scott