Overview

Sun Java System Access Manager is a software product that helps organizations manage secure access to the resources and web applications within their intranet and across the Internet. The initial release of Access Manager implemented the Liberty Identity Federation Framework (Liberty ID-FF) specifications, focusing on account federation, authentication domains, and single sign-on.

Subsequent releases of Access Manager added new features as defined in Version 1.2 of the Liberty ID-FF specifications as well as the Version 1.0 specifications of the Liberty Identity Web Services Framework (Liberty ID-WSF). These web services include a framework for retrieving and updating identity data which consists of attributes stored in identity-based service providers across the Internet. Also provided are an application programming interface (API) for communication between identity providers and service providers.

This version of Access Manager provides additional functionality based on the Liberty Alliance Project specifications. For example, Access Manager 7 provides the ability to bulk-federate user accounts to applications that are outsourced to business partners. It also provides the ability to map configured roles between the identity provider and the service provider. More specifically, Access Manager 7 2005Q4 supports the Liberty ID-FF 1.1 and 1.2, the Liberty ID-WSF 1.0, and the Liberty Identity Services Interface Specifications (Liberty ID-SIS) 1.0.