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.