Features Nearing End of Life

User Registration Mechanism

This release of Service Registry relies on its own user management and authentication mechanism. The plan is to update the Registry at a future release to a SAML-based mechanism (as specified in the ebXML Registry standard, of which this component is an implementation) and to use the Access Manager for user management and authentication at that release and thereafter.

At this release, Service Registry customers have their registered user information maintained by Service Registry. At a future release and thereafter, customers will have this information maintained by Access Manager. Customers who upgrade to one of these future versions of Service Registry will need to migrate their user information to Access Manager in order to maintain the connections (for example, audit trails) established between registered users and Registry contents. Sun intends to provide a migration tool to facilitate this transition.