Liberty Alliance ID-WSF 2.0

This session gives an overview of ID-WSF 2.0's layered architecture, focusing in particular on the new-in-version-2.0 People Service and how it allows consumers and organizations to manage social and enterprise applications such as bookmarks, blogging, calendars, e-mail, photo sharing and instant messaging in a federated social network. Learn how ID-WSF's SOAP based invocation framework builds on SAML's foundation to provide identity with privacy for web services.

Pat Patterson is a software architect at Sun Microsystems, working on the OpenSSO project and Federated Access Management product line. Pat has been working on Internet security and identity management since 1997, joining Sun in 2000 as an engineering manager in the Trustbase secure Web services team. After a four-year stint in product management, he returned to engineering early in 2005, focusing on federation and identity-enabled Web services. Pat speaks regularly at a variety of forums, from one-to-one executive briefings to major industry events such as JavaOne. Pat's blog centers on identity-related topics.