Open-Source Sun Shines Over Authentication Technology

Sun Microsystems, Inc., founder and lead advocate for Java technology, today announced plans to open source its web site authentication and web single sign-on (SSO) technologies through the Open Source Web Single Sign-On (OpenSSO) project.

OpenSSO will empower Java technology developers to participate in the evolution of these critical security components and include them in every application they build and deploy. Sun also plans to release the source code for agents to connect the web site authentication and web SSO technologies with the Sun Java System Web Server and Sun Java System Application Server.

In addition, Sun announced the OpenSSO community web site: http://opensso.dev.java.net .

OpenSSO will provide developers with project information and resources to foster discussion and facilitate participation in the community, including: roadmaps, FAQ's, documentation, tutorials, sample code, and mailing lists. Initial source code will be available beginning in Q4 of 2005, with full release of OpenSSO in spring 2006, under the under the OSI (Open Source Initiative) approved Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), the same license Sun is using for its OpenSolaris (TM) project.