There has been a lot of activity lately on the Attribute Services API (IGF). Since milestone 0.2 was published, we have recently checked in updates to reflect the new IGF-CARML-09 draft and checked in a first implementation of WS-Policy support for the API. Milestone 0.3 is well on its way to completion!

We still have yet to implement a provider to a full function protocol adapter like Higgins IdAS, but that should come in Milestone 0.4 or so.

For now, I’d like to encourage folks to check out the API. We’re looking for was to further simplify the developer’s experience and make it attractive. You’ll notice, after declaring the data used by the application that using the API is dramatically trivial compared to older APIs like JNDI or JDBC. Still there is more that could be done.

Enjoy.

I made a presentation on March 10th in Santa Clara at a workshop preceding the Liberty Alliance Plenary. A few days ago I cleaned it up, filled in the missing pieces. This should give you a good overview of the state of the ID-WSF Client Library, the ECP plugin, and new code about to be contributed to OpenLiberty (ID-WSF and SAML2 SP).

Download the PDF OpenLiberty Presentation.