Shibboleth Developers

At 4:49 PM +0100 11/1/04, Valery Tschopp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One of our customer want to shibbolethize (Target 1.2) its Oracle 
> IAS 9i HTTP Server (Apache 1.3.?) on a Windows 2000 box.
>
> Have someone already tried it?

standards to the rescue... maybe.....

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/id_mgmt/osdt/osf.html

This page is a glossy describing Oracle Secure Federation Services; I 
found this at the bottomof the page:

Oracle Secure Federation Services
Oracle Secure Federation Services enable an organization to leverage 
and extend existing investments in applications and identities 
and---then "marry" them to the proprietary identities and 
applications of their trading partners. Oracle solutions are highly 
flexible and designed to address multiple levels of development, 
integration, and deployment complexity.

Oracle Identity Management and SSO will support Liberty Alliance and 
SAML protocol technologies enabling federated single sign-on to and 
from third party Liberty and SAML compliant applications. This 
support will be transparent to the user as well as to the information 
technology group responsible for deploying the application. Liberty 
and SAML will simply be additional protocols that are supported 
within the offering.

Additionally, Oracle Identity Management will allow a "low-impact" 
installation of Liberty Alliance and SAML technology so that an 
existing non-Oracle identity management infrastructure can also 
access third party Liberty and SAML compliant applications - 
effectively Liberty or SAML enabling their environment. This 
deployment will tie into their existing identity management 
infrastructure.


--- so, at the acronym level, there would be some hope for 
interoperability. As to whether it would work right now -- hmmm, not 
likely... but you might want to ask about what Oracle does 
support,now and 12 months from now..... I think there might actually 
be some hope of convergence....