Announcement:PicketLink 1.0.3.final Release is out!
PicketLink is an important project under the security offerings from JBoss. The overall leadership of Security at JBoss is managed by Anil Saldhana.
What components are available under PicketLink projects.
- IDM: Provide an object model for managing Identities (Users/Groups/Roles) and associated behavior using different identity store backends like LDAP and RDBMS.
- Federated Identity: Support SAMLv2, WS-Trust and OpenID.
- AuthZ: Developer friendly authorization framework
- XACML: Oasis XACMLv2 implementation.
- Negotiation: Provide SPNego/Kerberos based Desktop SSO.
Who are the developers on this project?
PicketLink is an important project under the security offerings from JBoss. The overall leadership of Security at JBoss is managed by Anil Saldhana.
All are welcome to contribute to this open source project.
Currently the names of developers on this project reads:
- Anil Saldhana (PicketLink Lead. FederatedIdentity and XACML Lead)
- Boleslaw Dawidowicz (IDM Lead)
- Stefan Guilhen (Security Token Service Lead)
- Sohil Shah (AuthZ Lead)
- Jeff Yu
- Daniel Bevenius
- Marcel Kolsteren (Seam Integration Lead - Community Volunteer)
- Marcus Moyses
- Darran Lofthouse
Is PicketLink Officially supported by JBoss/RedHat via Enterprise Platforms (EAP, SOA-P etc)?
PicketLink is a community project. It is slowly making its way into the Enterprise Platforms sold by Red Hat Inc.
- Tech Preview in SOA-P5.
- Tech Preview in EAP 5.1 (Forthcoming).
- Included in EPP5 (Forthcoming).
As always, please contact your Red Hat sales person for more information.
Support
PicketLink is a community project available from JBoss Community. Its support mechanism is the user forum listed in "community" menu item above.
Testimonials
- "Picketlink is the simplest solution for Seam based apps". (From the forums)
- Used in production at http://www.frrry.com/ (Seam based web application from Netherlands).
Why the name "PicketLink"?
A Picket Fence is a secure system of pickets joined together via some type of links. Basically, the Pickets by themselves do not offer any security. But when they are brought together by linking them, they provide the necessary security. This project is that link for other security systems or systems to bring together or join, to finally provide the necessary secure system.
What is the difference between PicketLink and PicketBox?
PicketLink is the Identity Management project from JBoss. PicketBox acts as the foundation for PicketLink. PicketBox provides the authentication, authorization, audit and other security functionality needed for Java applications.
