Shibboleth Developers

["Alistair Young" <>]

> I suppose you could argue that Guanxi and AthensIM are
> implementations of SAML by extension
not quite. A SAML toolkit would be an implementation of SAML, i.e.
openSAML and SAMUEL. Guanxi and AthensIM are implementations of the
Shibboleth profile that use a SAML implementation, openSAML in AthensIM's
case, SAMUEL in Guanxi's

Alistair


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Alistair Young
Senior Software Engineer
UHI@Sabhal
 Mòr Ostaig
Isle of Skye
Scotland

> So AthensIM (IdP only) is yet another implementation of Shibboleth
> (the spec)?  Wow, there are more implementations of Shibboleth
> (Shibboleth, Guanxi, AthensIM) than there are implementations of SAML!
>  (I suppose you could argue that Guanxi and AthensIM are
> implementations of SAML by extension.)
>
> On 4/27/05, RL 'Bob' Morgan 
> <>
>  wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Tom Scavo wrote:
>>
>> > I'm writing some introductory slides on SAML.  Is it safe to say that
>> > Shibboleth is the only open source implementation of the SAML 1.1
>> > browser profiles?  I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on this
>> > question.
>>
>> There is also the AthensIM IdP:
>>
>>     http://www.athensams.net/shibboleth/AthensIM/
>>
>> I think it is based on opensaml, but presumably handles some portion of
>> the profiles with its own code.
>