The
Liberty
Alliance today unveiled its openLiberty Project, a global initiative to
offer resources and support to open source developers building identity-based
applications.
The global identity consortium also launched
openLiberty.org,
a portal where developers can collaborate on the openLiberty Project and access
tools and information for developing applications based on the Liberty
Federation and Liberty Web Services standards.
OpenLiberty was launched under the direction and leadership of the Liberty
Alliance Open Source Special Interest Group.
This group was formed to coordinate global open source initiatives and to
identify the open source libraries developers need to build applications that
interoperate with Liberty Federation (ID-FF 1.1, 1.2 and SAML 2.0) and Liberty
Web Services (ID-WSF 1.0, 1.1, 2.0) and Liberty People Service specifications.
Members of the group have identified the need to focus on delivering ID-WSF
Web Services Consumer libraries to allow open source developers to incorporate
SAML 2.0 functionality into web services applications.
"The openLiberty Project will allow open source developers to incorporate the
security and privacy capabilities of Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services
into a variety of identity-based applications," said Jason Rouault, vice
president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board and chief technology officer
for identity management software at
HP.
Roger Sullivan, president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board and vice
president of Oracle Identity Management, added: "The launch of openLiberty.org
offers new opportunities for developers to leverage the work of Liberty Alliance
in order to speed the development of open source identity initiatives."
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