OpenSSO

This session looks at the progress of OpenSSO over the past two years and gives an overview of its features and functionality, with an emphasis on how you can leverage it and get involved. The OpenSSO project (http://opensso.dev.java.net/) was launched by Sun Microsystems in July 2005 to bring its access control, single sign-on and federation technology to the open source community. Since then, the entire code base of Sun's Access Manager product has been released as open source and work is proceeding on Sun Java System Federated Access Manager 8.0 in the OpenSSO community. Come find out how OpenSSO can work in your identity project.

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.