Thoughts and experiences from an enterprise software architect.
This is a personal weblog by Jorgen Thelin, a Senior Program Manager for Windows Live Identity Services at Microsoft in Redmond.
The opinions expressed here represent my own views and not those of my current, prior or future employer(s).
The ongoing collaboration between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems delivered a very significant step forward in the business goal of Web services interoperability to bridge the real gaps between customers' IT systems.
At a joint press conference, Steve Balmer and Scott McNealy announced details of two new specifications to enable browser-based Web single sign-on across domains between Liberty Identity Federation and WS-Federation.
It's all done by leveraging the existing WS-MetadataExchange protocol framework.
Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile
Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile defines an interoperability profile of the Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol that allows using either Liberty Identity Federation or WS-Federation-based Identity Providers to interact with a service.
Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol
Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol defines how a service can query an identity provider for metadata that describes the identity-processing protocol suites supported by that provider.
These specs will go through the same WS-* Workshops Process that we use for all the other WS-* specs.
At the same press conference, Sun also announced they will be implementing WS-Management in its x64 Opteron servers, N1 management products, and Solaris 10.
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