WSO2 Identity Solution 1.0 Beta Released

We released the WSO2 Identity Solution 1.0 Beta, just a few minutes ago. It is really good to see things that were developed independently, fit in nicely to produce a larger solution.

Please give it a try and send us your feedback.

Here goes the traditional release note...

WSO2 Identity Solution 1.0-beta Released
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WSO2 Identity Solution team is pleased to announce the release of WSO2
Identity Solution 1.0-beta.

Release artifacts can be downloaded from :
http://dist.wso2.org/products/solutions/identity/1.0-beta/

WSO2 Identity Solution provides the following components to enable
CardSpace authentication for web applications.

* An Identity Provider
The identity provider includes an application to issue information
cards and a security token service. Security token service can be
deployed to issue tokens to trusted users. An identity selector will
obtain tokens from the Identity Provider and authenticate the users to a
Web applications with those tokens.

* A set of Relying Party components
Relying party components include an Apache HTTPD module and a Servlet
filter. The HTTPD module can be used with any Web application that is
hosted with Apache HTTPD irrespective of the implementation language.
The Servlet filter component is intended for Java based Web containers.

Key Features in this Release

* Identity provider
- Supports connecting to a JDBC or an LDAP user store
- Issues information cards based on username-token credential and
self issued credential
- Allows adding custom claims and mapping them to user attributes
in the user store
- Revocation of issued information cards
- Manage trusted relying parties
* Apache HTTPD relying party module - mod_cspace
* Java Servlet Filter relying party component

Reporting Problems
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Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at
https://wso2.org/jira/browse/IDENTITY

Contact us
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WSO2 Identity Solution developers can be contacted via mailing lists:
* For Users: identity-user@wso2.org
* For Developers:identity-dev@wso2.org
For details on subscriptions see
http://www.wso2.org/projects/solutions/identity#mail

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Identity Solution

WSO2 Identity Solution Team

WSO2 Identity Solution Alpha Released!

This is bit of an old news. As I was not at home for the last week, I could not blog about this earlier than this.

WSO2 Identity Solution is an open source implementation of Microsoft CardSpace, which is a standards-based solution for working with and managing diverse digital identities.

I started working on the Identity Solution by accident, when someone was needed to write an apache module for this solution. Although there were many who knew better, and I knew nothing about writing apache modules, I got the chance since I was jobless (not exactly!) then. Afterall, it is the main project that I'm working on at the moment. At the first shot at it, things didn't look so good. I was trying to write the whole module using very low-level APIs, not knowing that there are a lot many comprehensive abstractions that can be used. Handler concept, which is new in Apache2 made my task a few orders of magnitude easier than it would have been in Apache 1.3.

Nick Kew's companion website of the book "The Apache Modules Book" came in handy when I needed any bright ideas. I wonder how efficient I would have been if I had the book at hand. Thanks Nick, for the great effort.

Release note:

We are happy to announce the alpha release of WSO2 Identity Solution.

This release can be downloaded from the following location:

http://dist.wso2.org/products/solutions/identity/alpha/

Key features of this release includes

* An Apache2 module to enable CardSpace authentication on a
web application.
* A ServletFilter component to enable CardSpace authentication
on a Java servlet based web application.
* Two samples explaining the use of the above components.
(Please follow instructions given in the README files)

Release artifacts :
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Binary distribution  - identity-solution-alpha-bin.zip
Source distribution  - identity-solution-alpha-src.zip

Project Information
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Web site              - http://www.wso2.org/projects/identity
Issue tracker         - https://wso2.org/jira/browse/IDENTITY
Mailing list          - identity-dev@wso2.org


Thanks,
WSO2 Identity Solution Team