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Overview

This Component:

• A switching component that between a browser add-on on the one hand and one or more Identity Selectors on the other. The user decides what their "current" selector is. The browser requests a security token from the selector selector that then passes this request on to the current selector.
• Provides an app/UI to allow the user to change their default selector
• Uses a "connector" architecture that allows developers to create new connectors for new Identity Selectors
• Only currently available for Windows

Details

• Status: Available since 1.1M2
• Language: C++
• Packaging: exe (windows only)

Backlog

• none

Service

Higgins Selector Selector is responsible for:

• Accepting I-Card token request from browser plug-in
• Dispatching token request to registered selector through selector connector
• Returning token from registered selector to browser
• Registering a default selector from available selectors

Components this component depends on are:

• Connectors for Higgins Selector Selector
• Higgins Information Card MIME handler for IE and/or Higgins Browser Extension for Firefox

Architecture

The diagram below shows the relationship between two different browsers, the selector selector, the connectors and the Identity Selectors.

Note: at present there is no connector for the RCP Selector

Used By

Partial list of solutions that use this component

• Adobe AIR Selector solution currently uses Higgins Selector Selector package

Links

• Adobe AIR Selector solution
• Building Higgins Selector Selector
• Installing Higgins Selector Selector
• Higgins Selector Selector download