Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Technical Overview

Global Services

Global services take configuration values and perform functions for OpenSSO Enterprise on a global basis. The following table lists the global services with brief descriptions.

Table 2–2 Global OpenSSO Enterprise Services


Service	What it Does
Common Federation Configuration	Contains configuration attributes for Federation Services.
Liberty ID-FF Service Configuration	Contains configuration attributes for the Liberty Alliance Project Identity Federation Framework.
Liberty ID-WSF Security Service	Contains configuration attributes for the Liberty Alliance Project Identity Web Services Framework.
Liberty Interaction Service	Contains configuration attributes for the Liberty Alliance Project Interaction Service — used to get consent from an owner to expose data, or to get additional data.
Multi-Federation Protocol	Contains configuration attributes for multi-federation protocol circles of trust.
Password Reset	Contains configuration attributes for the Password Reset Service.
Policy Configuration	Contains configuration attributes for the Policy Service.
SAML v2 Service Configuration	Contains configuration attributes for the SAML v2 interactions.
SAML v2 SOAP Binding	Contains configuration attributes for SAML v2 SOAP Binding Service.
Security Token Service	Contains configuration attributes for the Security Token Service.
Session	Contains configuration attributes for the Session Service.
User	Contains configuration attributes for user profiles.