Who Should Use This Book

This Federation and SAML Administration Guide is intended for use by IT professionals, network administrators and software developers who implement a Liberty-enabled identity framework and access platform using Sun Java System servers and software. It is recommended that administrators understand the following technologies:

• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

• Java^™

• JavaServer Pages^™ (JSP)

• HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

• eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

• Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

• Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

• SOAP (SOAP is no longer an acronym for the messaging protocol.)