Solutions 1.0

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Version 1.0

• This page describes the solutions available with the Higgins 1.0 release.
• For solutions under development as part of Higgins 1.1 see Solutions 1.1
• A Solution is a specific combination of Higgins Components that, when assembled and deployed, result in either an infrastructure-level service, or an end-user application.

Higgins Developed & Supported Solutions

This section describes the solutions developed by the Higgins team. There are solutions at three different levels:

I-Card Selectors

These flavors of selector apps are available:

• GTK and Cocoa Selector - for Firefox (or other applications) on Linux, FreeBSD and OSX (client-based native code app)
• RCP Selector - an Eclipse RCP Application (client-based Java app; requires JRE 1.4 or higher)
• Firefox-Embedded Selector - for Firefox on Windows, Linux, and OSX (Requires hosted I-Card Service Component)

Identity Web Services

Identity Provider web services:

• STS IdP - WS-Trust Identity Provider (webapp and web service)
• SAML2 IdP - SAML2 Identity Provider (webapp and web service)

Relying Party website:

• Extensible Protocol RP Website 1.0 - I-Card-enabled Relying Party site (webapp) [supersedes: RP Website Solution]

Identity Attribute Service

This solution is currently a local java component.

• IdAS Solution - Identity Attribute Service uses Context Provider plugins to adapt existing data sources to the Context Data Model.

Other

• XDI4j - General purpose library for XDI (see the Wikipedia page on XDI)

Higgins-based Solutions

This section lists solutions developed external to the Higgins project, but that are based on Higgins Components and code.

• IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager 6.2
• Serena Business Mashups
• Novell DigitalMe for Linux/Mac - Identity Selectors based on the Higgins GTK and Cocoa Selector (also open source)
• Bandit STS/IdP Solution - STS IdP (also open source)
• Eclipse ALF Project