Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0 OpenSSO Add-On Guide

Primary Entity Mappings

Table 2–1 lists the primary entity mappings between OpenSSO and Web Space Server.

Table 2–1 Entity Mappings Between OpenSSO (SSO) and Web Space Server (WSS)

SSO Entity 

WSS Entity 

Comments 

Realm 

Org 

Org is the “Regular” type of org in Web Space Server. Users inherit permissions/roles from the Organization and Location to which they belong.

User 

User 

 

(Static) Role 

Community 

Map to a private community. Users can belong to any number of Communities and inherit permissions/roles from them. 

Filtered Role 

Community 

Map to a private community. 

Group 

Community 

Map to a private community. 

N/A 

Locations 

This is another type of org in Web Space Server. An Organization to which a User belongs must be the parent of the Location to which that User belongs.

N/A 

User Groups 

User Groups are arbitrary collections of Users. Users can belong to any number of User Groups, and can inherit permissions/roles from User Groups. This is a grouping of users that can be used for bulk operations in Web Space Server. 

N/A 

Role 

Roles in Web Space Server are containers for permissions.