Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Deployment Planning Guide

Constraints

One protocol such as OASIS SAMLv2 or Liberty ID-FF must be used across all the communications between the participating entities. Participating entities can include Service Provider, intermediate Identity Provider Proxies, and the actual Identity Provider. Currently there is no support for a heterogeneous environment that includes both SAMLv2–compliant systems and non-SAMLv2 equivalents.