Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Technical Overview

Administration

In order to communicate using the SAML v2 profiles you need, at least, two instances of OpenSSO Enterprise. One instance will act for the identity provider and the other will act for the service provider. Name identifiers are used to communicate regarding a user.


Note –

SAML v2 single sign-on interactions support both persistent and transient identifiers. A persistent identifier is saved to a particular user entry as the value of two attributes. A transient identifier is temporary and no data will be written to the user's data store entry.


To prepare your instances for SAML v2 interactions, you need to exchange a particular provider's configuration information or metadata between all participating identity and service providers, and assemble the providers into a circle of trust. Utility APIs can then be used to communicate with the data store, reading, writing, and managing the relevant properties and property values. For more information see the Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Administration Guide.