Asa Hardcastle, Technical Lead for the openLiberty ID-WSF ClientLib Project, announced that the ClientLib Alpha is now available online. The ClientLib uses OpenSAML's Java XML Tooling, SOAP, and SAML2 Libraries. The Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) is a set of open specifications for interoperable, secure, identity-enabled Web services.
OpenLiberty.org, a domain name donated by HP, has been launched as a resource for all those looking to deploy open source solutions for securing identity-based Web services at the relying party. The participants are initially focusing on ways to provide the open source community with ID-WSF Web Services Consumer (WSC) libraries so that developers can incorporate SAML 2.0 functionality into a variety of Web services and client-based applications...
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