opensso

Oracle has won approval from the U.S. government for their purchase of Sun (formerly Sun Microsystems). The deal is still subject to approval by the European Commission(EU). Oracle said they expect the deal to close by August 31 (2009).

I don't own stock in either company, but I'm interested to see what happens to many different Sun products, including:

This OpenSSO tutorial is probably the best "getting started with OpenSSO" tutorial around, but I'll add one caveat to it: Until you know what you're doing, just follow this tutorial to the letter, and I mean to the letter. Specifically, when they say "use Glassfish", you want to use Glassfish, and not something else, like Tomcat.

PHP OpenSSO FAQ: Can you share a PHP script to validate a user's OpenSSO cookie?

I've been working on a single sign-on project lately, evaluating both OpenSSO and IBM's trio of TIM, TAM, and WebSeal, and I noticed that Google has only 32,000 links to real WebSeal resources. By contrast, even as a young open source project, OpenSSO already has over 100,000 links.

Out of curiosity, I decided to google a variety of web languages and tools, and here are my search results:

Here's a simple PHP program I wrote to test how PHP works with OpenSSO, specifically how it works with OpenSSO identity information.

I saved this file with the name info.php, then put it in a directory on my Apache web server that is protected by an OpenSSO login policy. To access this page, I enter the URL for the page in my browser and try to access it, with the URL being something like this: