Sun Java System Access Manager 7 2005Q4 Federation and SAML Administration Guide

Discovery Service APIs

Access Manager contains several Java packages that are used by the Discovery Service. They include:

Additional information is in Discovery Service APIs and the Java API Reference in /AccessManager-base/SUNWam/docs or on docs.sun.com. Information about the com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.common package is in Common Service Interfaces in Chapter 10, Application Programming Interfaces.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.disco Package

This package includes a client API that provides interfaces developers can use to communicate with the Discovery Service.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.disco.plugins Package

This package includes an interface that can be used to develop plug-ins. The package also contains some default plug-ins.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.interfaces Package

This package includes interfaces that can be used to implement functionality common to all Liberty-enabled identity services. Several implementations of these interfaces have been developed for the Discovery Service.