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SOA Developers Get Testy - Parasoft SOAtest 5.5 makes QA testing a team effort

Parasoft SOAtest 5.5, released today, enables development teams to perform business process testing, load and performance testing, policy enforcement, scenario tests and unit testing. This release adds support for the Microsoft .NET Framework and Windows Communication Foundation.

Parasoft Announces Advanced SOA Testing Support for Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Parasoft SOAtest 5.5 Continues its Evolution as the Premier Quality Solution to Ensure Secure, Reliable, And Compliant Service Oriented Architectures.

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Understanding WS-Federation

WS-Security, WS-Trust, and WS-SecurityPolicy provide a basic model for federation between Identity Providers and Relying Parties.

Proposed Charter: OASIS Web Services Federation (WSFED) Technical Committee

OASIS has acknowledged receipt of a draft TC charter proposal to establish a new Web Services Federation (WSFED) Technical Committee.

Sun's Identity-Enabled B2B Integration SOA Offering

As companies tackle larger B2B integration projects, these corporations are challenged with developing a B2B platform that can be re-used across multiple projects and which can provide a single point of entry into the company's firewalls.

BEA and CA Announce Strategic Partnership for Identity and Access Management

Companies to help customers reduce IT costs, improve performance by combining Web Single Sign-On, user management and SOA infrastructure.

Extending Identity Management Solutions into a SOA

Managing and applying policies and controls to Service Oriented Architectures.

WS-Federation version 1.1 is out, 3 years after...

Microsoft, IBM & al. have decided to release a new version of WS-Federation, more than 3 years after their first version.

CA Announces New Release of eTrust SiteMinder With Enhanced Identity Federation Capabilities

Support for Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services and new partner-enabling “End Point” eases creation of secure business partnerships.

SAML 2.0 Meets Web 2.0

SAML 2.0, a protocol for federated single sign on, needs to lighten up for the Web 2.0 world of agile development.

Liberty Alliance Releases Final Version of ID-WSF 2.0 Web Services Standards

Liberty Alliance announced the release of the final version of ID-WSF 2.0, a framework for building and managing privacy-respecting, secure and interoperable Web services and Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs).

Secure Sharing of Digital Identity Information

This article provides a short introduction to SAML and its use within WebLogic Server 9.

Identity Based XML Firewalling Solution Brief

This papers describes how to provide security to a SOA, by providing architects a centralized integration and enforcement point for identity based SOA security operations like client authentication, service level authorization, message privacy and transaction integrity.

Federated Web Services Solution Brief

This papers illustrates how to manage the process of trust enablement and identity bridging between client applications and Web services without coding. Must read!

Sun Microsystems Publishes Non-Assertion Covenant for SAML Implementations

Sun Microsystems has issued a 'SAML Non-Assertion Covenant' in connection with OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specifications being created by the OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC.

F5 Teams with Oracle to Deliver Extended Identity Management

F5 BIG-IP® and FirePass® products now integrate with Oracle® Identity Management.