About Sun Java System Federation Manager 7.0

Sun Java System Federation Manager 7.0 is the first product to focus on quickly establishing and extending services. Federation Manager 7.0 is a first-generation product that accelerates the introduction of new, revenue-generating services by organizing hub-and-spoke partner networks into secure and trusted domains. Federation Manager allows companies to act as spokes (or service providers) by providing extensible, easy-to-deploy federation solutions. Key features of Federation Manager include:

• Simplified deployment into existing internal technology infrastructures.

• Leveraging of the trusted domain's hub for authentication, authorization, and security policies.

• Support for all major federation protocols (Security Assertion Markup Language, Liberty Alliance Project).

• Repeatable integration for low-cost, rapid rollout to multiple partners.

• Extranet single sign-on.

• Automated identity federation.

• Single log-out.

• Centralized provider management.

• Trusted domain management.

• Liberty—based trusted authority and discovery/registry provider.

• Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) assertion exchange.

• Web services development framework.