1.1 Key Features of Deployment

Deployment Example: SAML v2 Using Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 is designed to highlight the following key features:

• All instances of OpenSSO Enterprise are deployed behind a load balancer for high-availability.

• Instances of OpenSSO Enterprise acting as an identity provider are configured to work with instances of Sun Java™ System Directory Server configured as the user data store.

• XML Signing is enabled for all SAML v2 protocols.

• The SAML v2 URL end points are exposed through load balancers with SSL termination and regeneration configuration.

• A web policy agent and a J2EE policy agent are deployed in front of the service provider instances of OpenSSO Enterprise; the policy agents work in single sign-on mode only.