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Higgins/Solutions
A Solution is a specific combination of Higgins Components that, when assembled and deployed, results in either an infrastructure-level service, or an end-user application.
Higgins Supported Solutions
This section describes the solutions developed by the Higgins team.
End-user Solutions: Identity Selectors
An identity selector is an end-user application that allows a user to accept i-cards from card issuing sites (known as Identity Providers or IdPs), create self-issued i-cards, manage the user's set of cards (a bit like a wallet), and to use these cards to authenticate to relying sites, or to local applications. These i-cards are visualized as card icons in a user interface that allows the user to review, manage and in some cases edit some of the information associated with the card.
The long term plan is that these selectors will support all of the major identity protocols and run on all popular platforms. In the past year we have worked mostly on interoperability with Microsoft CardSpace-compatible card issuing and relying sites, systems and services as well as with OpenID OPs and relying sites.
Here are the three identity selector solutions that we support:
- Web-based Selector Solution - for Firefox or IE on Windows, Linux, and OSX (local browser extention and a hosted agent service)
- Client-based Selector Solution - for Firefox (or other applications) on Linux, FreeBSD and OSX (runs entirely on local machine)
- Eclipse-based Selector Solution - for Eclipse RCP Applications (runs entirely on local machine)
Developer Solutions
Higgins 1.0 will support the following solutions:
- STS IdP Solution - WS-Trust Identity Provider (webapp and web service)
- SAML2 IdP Solution - SAML2 Identity Provider (webapp and web service)
- IdAS Solution - Identity Attribute Service (local java component)
- RP Website Solution - Relying Party site
Higgins-based Solutions
This section lists solutions developed external to the Higgins project, but based on Higgins Components.
- Bandit STS/IdP Deployment - Higgins-based STS/IdP service
- Eclipse ALF Project
Misc
Nightly Builds
- Automated Builds - not a deployment configuration in the usual sense; the Higgins project automatically builds some (and soon all) of the Components every night.