What's New in Oracle Access Manager?

This section introduces new features of Oracle Access Manager 10g (10.1.4.0.1) and provides pointers to additional information in this book. New features information from previous releases is also retained to help those users migrating to the current release.

The following sections describe the new features and changes in Oracle Access Manager that are described in this book:

• Product and Component Name Changes

• Supported Integrations

• Updates to the OracleAS Single Sign-On Integration

• Updates to the Oracle Identity Federation Integration

• Updates to the Siebel 7 Integration

• Updates to the SAP Integration

• Updates to the RSA Securid Integration

• Updates to the WebLogic Integration

• Updates to the WebSphere Integration

• Updates to the Plumtree Integration

Note: For a comprehensive list of new features and functions in Oracle Access Manager 10g (10.1.4.0.1), and a description of where each is documented, see the chapter on What's New in Oracle Access Manager in the Oracle Access Manager Introduction.

Product and Component Name Changes

The original product name, Oblix NetPoint, has changed to Oracle Access Manager. Most component names remain the same. However, there are several important changes that you should know about, as shown in the following table:

Item	Was	Is
Product Name	Oblix NetPoint Oracle COREid	Oracle Access Manager
Product Name	Oblix SHAREid NetPoint SAML Services	Oracle Identity Federation
Product Name	OctetString Virtual Directory Engine (VDE)	Oracle Virtual Directory
Product Release	Oracle COREid 7.0.4	Also available as part of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2).
Directory Name	COREid Data Anywhere	Data Anywhere
Component Name	COREid Server	Identity Server
Component Name	Access Manager	Policy Manager
Console Name	COREid System Console	Identity System Console
Identity System Transport Security Protocol	NetPoint Identity Protocol	Oracle Identity Protocol
Access System Transport Protocol	NetPoint Access Protocol	Oracle Access Protocol
Administrator	NetPoint Administrator COREid Administrator	Master Administrator
Directory Tree	Oblix tree	Configuration tree
Data	Oblix data	Configuration data
Software Developer Kit	Access Server SDK ASDK	Access Manager SDK
API	Access Server API Access API	Access Manager API
API	Access Management API Access Manager API	Policy Manager API
Default Policy Domains	NetPoint Identity Domain COREid Identity Domain	Identity Domain
Default Policy Domains	NetPoint Access Manager COREid Access Manager	Access Domain
Default Authentication Schemes	NetPoint None Authentication COREid None Authentication	Anonymous Authentication
Default Authentication Schemes	NetPoint Basic Over LDAP COREid Basic Over LDAP	Oracle Access and Identity Basic Over LDAP
Default Authentication Schemes	NetPoint Basic Over LDAP for AD Forest COREid Basic Over LDAP for AD Forest	Oracle Access and Identity for AD Forest
Access System Service	AM Service State	Policy Manager API Support Mode

All legacy references in the product or documentation should be understood to connote the new names.

Supported Integrations

The introduction describes supported integrations for 10g (10.1.4.0.1).

• An overview of supported integrations is provided for quick reference. All other chapters in this guide describe implementation details for a specific integration.

  
  

  See Also: Chapter 1, "Introduction".

  
  

This guide now points to information on Oracle HTTP Server.

• Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) is a Web server extension that identifies Oracle Access Manager Web components that communicate with the OHS.

  
  

  See Also: Chapter 2, "Integrating the Apache v1.3 and Oracle HTTP Server".

  
  

This guide now points to information on Oracle Virtual Directory.

• The Oracle Virtual Directory combines user data from multiple data sources to create an aggregated virtual directory.

  
  

  See Also: Chapter 3, "Integrating the Oracle Virtual Directory".

  
  

Updates to the OracleAS Single Sign-On Integration

• You can configure single sign-on between the Access System and the OracleAS Single Sign-On server.

  An older version of this chapter previously existed in the Oracle Access Manager Developer Guide. It provides updated information on configuring single sign-on between Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Application Server 10g (OracleAS 10g). When you configure single sign-on you also provide identity management functionality across the Web-based applications running on Oracle Application Servers, for example, Oracle e-Business Suite, Oracle Forms, Portals, and other Access System-protected resources. Included in this new version is information about the OHS WebGate (Apache WebGate information has been removed).

  
  

  See Also: "Integrating with Oracle Application Servers".

  
  

Updates to the Oracle Identity Federation Integration

• You can authorize users by querying external authentication systems.

  This is known as federated authorization. When the Access System at a Service Provider site receives a request from a user in a federated environment, it may need to get additional information about the user from the user's Identity Provider. You can configure the Access System to query external Identity Providers for user authorization.

  
  

  See Also: "Federated Single Sign-On Using Oracle Identity Federation".

  
  

Updates to the Siebel 7 Integration

• Information on configuration of this integration has been updated.

  
  

  See Also: "Integrating Siebel 7".

  
  

Updates to the SAP Integration

The SAP integration now supports SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0.

• The SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 can now be protected by the Access System.

  
  

  See Also: "Integrating the SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0".

  
  

Updates to the RSA Securid Integration

Information has been updated for completeness.

See Also: Chapter 13, "Integrating the RSA SecurID Authentication Plug-In".

Updates to the WebLogic Integration

Information has been updated for completeness.

See Also: Chapter 9, "Integrating the Security Provider for WebLogic SSPI".

Updates to the WebSphere Integration

The integration with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 4 is deprecated in this release. The information in this chapter for WAS 5 and 6 has been updated for accuracy and completeness.

See Also: Chapter 10, "Integrating with IBM WebSphere".

Updates to the Plumtree Integration

The previous integration with Plumtree Corporate Portal is supported in this release. Note, however, that the most recent version of Plumtree Corporate Portal is now known as BEA Aqualogic Interaction.

See Also: Chapter 11, "Integrating Plumtree Corporate Portal".