Why do you want to use SAML11?

[anil.saldhana]

It is deprecated and not recommended by the Oasis SAML Technical Committee anymore. The recommendation is to move to SAML2.

[blannoy]

Well in my case I'm a Service Provider and it's even worse We have to consume a SAML 1.0 message (which poses a problem with picketlink see https://community.jboss.org/thread/199333?tstart=0).