The Liberty-based Application Programming Interfaces

com.sun.identity.federation.plugins

Contains interfaces which can be implemented to allow applications to customize their actions before and after invoking the federation protocols. See Chapter 3, Federation.

com.sun.identity.federation.services

Provides interfaces for writing custom plug-ins that can be used during the federation or single sign-on process. See Chapter 3, Federation.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.authnsvc

Provides classes to manage the Authentication Web Service. See Chapter 6, Authentication Web Service.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.authnsvc.mechanism

Provides an interface to process incoming Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) requests and generate SASL responses for the different SASL mechanisms. See Chapter 6, Authentication Web Service.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.authnsvc.protocol

Provides classes to manage Authentication Web Service protocol. See Chapter 6, Authentication Web Service.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.common

Defines common classes that are used by many of the Access Manager Liberty-based web service components. See Common Service Interfaces of this chapter.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.common.wsse

Provides an interface to parse and create a X.509 Certificate Token Profile. See Common Service Interfaces of this chapter.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.disco

Provides interfaces to manage the Discovery Service. See Chapter 8, Discovery Service.

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

Provides a plugin interface for the Discovery Service. See Chapter 8, Discovery Service.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.dst

Provides classes to implement an identity service. See Chapter 7, Data Services for information about services built using this API.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.dst.service

Provides a handler class that can be used by any generic identity data service. See Chapter 7, Data Services for information about data services.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.interaction

Provides classes to support the Interaction RequestRedirect Profile. See the section on the Interaction Service for information on this profile.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.interfaces

Provides interfaces that are common to all Access Manager Liberty-based web service components. See Chapter 8, Discovery Service and Chapter 7, Data Services for information about default implementations. See the section on Common Service Interfaces for more general information.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.paos

Provides classes for web applications to construct and process PAOS requests and responses. See PAOS Binding of this chapter.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.security

Provides an interface to manage Liberty-based web service security mechanisms. See Common Security API of this chapter.

com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.soapbinding

Provides classes to construct SOAP requests and responses and to change the contact point for the SOAP binding. See Chapter 9, SOAP Binding Service.

com.sun.identity.saml

Provides a service provider interface (SPI) in which proprietary XML/signature implementations can be plugged in. See Chapter 10, SAML Administration.

com.sun.identity.saml.assertion

Provides classes to manage assertions and profiles. See Chapter 10, SAML Administration.

com.sun.identity.saml.common

Provides classes that are common to all SAML elements. See Chapter 10, SAML Administration.

com.sun.identity.saml.plugins

Provides SPIs to integrate SAML into custom services. See Chapter 10, SAML Administration.

com.sun.identity.saml.protocol

Provides classes that parse the XML messages used to exchange assertions and information. See Chapter 10, SAML Administration.

com.sun.identity.saml.xmlsig

Provides an SPI in which proprietary XML/signature implementations can be plugged in. See Chapter 10, SAML Administration.

com.sun.liberty

Provides interfaces common to the Access Manager Federation Management module. See Chapter 3, Federation.