This morning (PST), Roger Sullivan announced Lberty’s new project called openLiberty.org. This community oriented website aims at providing developers and architects with open source implementations of Liberty’s suite of identity protocols. I am really looking forward to seeing a lot…
Since I am using VMWare a lot for all kinds of testing, I am really happy to have found this simple procedure: it allows you to extend the Boot partition of your Windows box without having to resort to 3rd…
Now – here is something quite interesting about Java directions: I was only remotely aware of JSR 277 – Java Modules – and took really no big interest in it. However, this effort might solve some of the self-inflicted problems…
WS-Federation 1.1 is out… and skipping through the TOC, I have this strange feeling of deja vu.
Thanks to Pat, I caught the five-things-bug as well… So here are the five things that most folks probably do not know about me: I attended a Jesuit border school in Bonn from grade 9 through 11. The only reason…
After talking to Robin and some other folks, I think it might be an interesting exercise to define a few terms and describe how I have been using them in mny blog post. This is not necesarrily an attempt to…
I am starting this series of truly random thoughts on various identity-related topics with an area that I have – so far – not spend a lot of time thinking about: Identity for Voice. What do I mean by that?…
James McGovern asks whether federated identity might require (at least sometimes) federated authorization. I think this is a pretty good question and one that is not easy to answer. My initial take on this would be that federated identity should…
After suggesting the general OSIS session at IIW, I obviously was obliged to run the session as well. Overall, I think that the session was sucessful – although I believe that only those that have been working in the context…
Interesting news from the Compact Framework group: They are planning on releasing a subset of WCF on the Compact Framework (i.e. their mobile edition). This is quite interesting, not the least because a lot of their mobile devices are frequently…