Chad La Joie of SWITCH announced yesterday the release OpenSAML/J v2.0.0. This is excellent news. As you probably know, the ID-WSF Client Library is based on the OpenSAML/J libraries. I am on the svn change notification email list and I can tell you that this release is the result of a huge amount of work.

From Chad:

“So I’m very happy to announce the 2.0.0 release of OpenSAML/J. This release closes out the remaining bugs from all the previous release candidates.

Documentation:
http://opensaml.org

Downloads:
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/downloads/opensaml/java

We are working on the following items for future releases:
- Move to Maven build system
- Merge in the XACML code contribution provided by the EGEE Collaboration
- Merge in the WS-Trust code contribution provided by the EGEE Collaboration

And for those that like metrics, Ohloh indicates that OpenSAML 2.0 (Java and C++ versions) represents about 39 person years of work.
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4504

Scott will be releasing the C++ code at a later date.”

Thank you for all of your hard work! I am looking forward to the upcoming additions.

Just to let everyone know … the ECP plugin for Firefox has been checked into subversion.

There are a couple caveats:

• Is preliminary only
• Needs testing
• No installation docs … yet
• User IdP selection dialog isn’t yet functional

I will post an xpi file for easy installation as soon as I get through the next round of debugging.

Question for everyone … do I need to sign this extension? And if so, whose CA should I use?

I am very excited to welcome Peter Pritchard to the development team for openLiberty. He has begun the development of a SAMLv2 ECP Firefox extension. You will notice that we are adding it to the projects on openLiberty. The WSF-DEV mailing list will be used for discussion, and the WSF-DEV phone calls will be used for ECP discussion as well as clientlib discussions.

Peter Pritchard is a programmer at Zenn New Media in western Massachusetts. His duties vary from back-end data modeling, front-end xhtml/js/css to client/server integration mechanisms. Primarily a Java/WebObjects programmer, he also works in Javascript, Ruby, Objective-C or anything else he can get away with for a particular project.

When he is not working on the latest project at Zenn, he is designing Tesla-based gravity engines, watching Smallville episodes, playing piano (poorly) or playing Candyland with his two daughters, Lucy and Stella.