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    Background

     

    PicketLink is a community open source project that tries to adhere to project schedules as much as possible. But sometime it is difficult to adhere to the set dates.  If we want to release early and release often, we need to push features to next releases.

    Release Schedule  (Latest First)

     

    Released Date: 29 February 2012

    Details: https://community.jboss.org/wiki/PicketLink202Final

    NOTE:  Release was delayed due to JBoss AS 7.1 development priority.

     

    Release Date: 9 September 2011

     

     

    Planned Date: August 2011

    Released Date: 11 Aug 2011

     

    Details: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/PicketLinkV200final

     

    Builds are available here.

    Planned Date: 15 Sept 2010

    Actual Date: 17 Sept 2010

    Details are in this article.

     

    Planned Date: June 3, 2010

    Actual Date: June 4, 2010

    Details are in this article.

    Planned Date:  May 26, 2010

    Actual Date: May 27, 2010

    Features:

    • Masking Passwords  (PLFED-73)
    • picketlink-sts.xml can be in file system (PLFED-65)
    • Others listed in JIRA.

     

    JBoss SOA Platform

    • PicketLink Federation is included as tech preview in JBoss SOA Platform 5.
      • Feature Support:   SAML Token Support for JBoss ESB.

     

    JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)

    • PicketLink Federation is included as tech preview in JBoss EAP 5.1
      • Feature Support:  SAML2, WS-Trust (STS) and OpenID

    JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (EPP)

    • PicketLink IDM is included in EPP 5.

     

    XACML Support in JBoss Enterprise Products

     

    • XACML Support is provided as part of the native security libraries (JBoss Security aka PicketBox) that is integrated into JBoss EAP 5 and beyond.  Full support is provided. (Since EAP acts as the foundation for SOA and EPP, XACML is available for use by SOA and EPP customers).
      • Remember, XACML Engine is a generic access control engine that is available for your business use.

     

    SPNego/Kerberos/Negotiation Support in JBoss Enterprise Products

    • JBoss Negotiation library provides the SPNego/Kerberos/Negotiation support in JBoss EAP 5 and beyond. Full support is available.
      • NTLM fall back is not yet supported. (NTLM is deprecated in the industry).

    • PicketBox (formerly JBoss Security) acts as the foundation.  We include the XACML and SPNego/Negotiation libraries as part of the native security offering.
    • PicketLink is a value added Identity Management solution for JBoss Enterprise customers.  It is an open source project that can be used by the community also