PicketLink is an umbrella project for security and identity management for Java Applications. It provides:
- Java EE Application Security
- Authentication API
- Authorization and Permission API
- Session Based Identity
- Fully Integrated With CDI
- Identity Management
- Built-in Identity Stores for Databases and LDAP
- Supports Java EE and Java SE Platform
- Rich and Extensible API
- Multi-Tenancy
- Ideal for Cloud and SaaS applications
- Federation
- SAML (v2.0 and v1.1)
- OAuth2
- XACML v2
- OpenID
- WS-Trust based Security Token Server (STS)
- Social Login
- Facebook Connect
- Twitter Login
- Google+ Login
- Mobile Applications Security
- REST Applications Security
Want to learn all about PicketLink ? Look at deep dive sessions part 1 and part 2.
Peter Skopek (@pskopek) works on the PicketLink team at Red Hat and gave a presentation at London JBUG a few days ago. The slides and the video recording are now available:
Lot more information at picketlink.org.