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I've had an interest in publishing technical articles and HELPFUL code for a few years. I am (by trade and hobby) a developer who specializes in Oracle technologies and web based architectures. I have been an employee of both TUSC and Oracle Corporation. My intent here is to share my ideas and coding experiences with the developer community as a whole. As with all developers some of my ideas are great and some of them are .... well you know. Anyway, I hope you find something here that will aid in your endeavor, or spark a new idea.
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Good luck and good coding !

	Sunday, November 14, 2004

JOSSO: The Open Source Single Sign-On Project

I have spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to SSO enable applications developed in PHP, Java, and ColdFusion using the SSO implementation provided with OracleAS 10g (and Oracle 9iAS before it). A recent reader (Gianluca Brigandi) of my BLOG requested that I also mention JOSSO. JOSSO, or Java Open Single Sign-On, is an open source J2EE-based SSO infrastructure aimed to provide a solution for centralized platform neutral user authentication (this sentence was borrowed from the JOSSO site). It provides most of the same features that the other commercial SSO vendor supply. I've decided to see how it works. I think it would be worth every ones time to check it out. The URL for the JOSSO site is http://www.josso.org . This could prove useful for OracleAS 10g implementations where SSO might be required, but the larger Infrastructure implementation is not required or desired.

I personallty think Oracle has done a fantastic job with it's SSO implementation and integration, but there is definately room out there for alternate solutions! Open Source software keeps everyone on their toes and moving forward.

I want to note also, the JOSSO can be used to SSO enable PHP applications as detailed on the JOSSO site: http://www.josso.org/php-howto.html

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