Required Hardware and Software

The following software components are required to integrate OpenSSO Enterprise with other applications:

• Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0

• Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Client SDK

• Sun OpenSSO Enterprise Policy Agent 3.0

Some programming effort using the OpenSSO Enterprise Client SDK is required to implement the following business use cases:

• Leveraging Fat Clients, Custom Web Applications, and Enterprise JavaBeans

• Complementing Policy Agent Functionality

• Enabling Identity Federation

• Enabling Web Services Security

Installing and configuring an OpenSSO Enterprise Policy Agent is required to implement the following business use cases:

• Using Non-Intrusive, Policy Agent-Based Approaches to Web Resources

• Enabling Identity Services

• Coexisting with Non-Sun Deployments

In OpenSSO Enterprise Policy Agent 3.0 the Centralized Agent Configuration feature enables centralized Policy Agent management. In earlier versions, the Policy Agent configuration is local to the server being protected.