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Quickstarts are self-contained, concise examples that generally demonstrate at most one or two features. The PicketLink quickstarts at GitHub provide working, buildable code that shows the usage of a number of authentication, authorization and identity management features. They are a nice way to communicate the design, common and best practices and the usage of PicketLink.
The PicketLink Quickstarts are part of the JBoss Developer Framework( http://www.jboss.org/jdf/quickstarts/get-started/), formerly known as JDF. There you can find a lot of useful stuff about Java, JavaEE and of course all JBoss projects and products. Also, there are a lot of useful information and tutorials that will guide you to configure and prepare your environment to start using any of the available quickstarts.
All quickstarts are available at GitHub. So you can download them, fork the repository (if you have an GitHub account, of course) or even just clone the repository. The latter option is fully described along the README.md file for each quickstart, as well as a lot of additional information, configuration requirements, how to deploy and undeploy using the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6(and beyond) and so forth.
The repository is located at https://github.com/jboss-developer/jboss-picketlink-quickstarts.
You don't need to be a Git expert in order to get the quickstarts. All the necessary commands are fully covered in the README.md file for each of them. For any additional information take a look at the JDF site too.
For a complete list of all available quickstarts, access the PicketLink Quickstart Repository.
We have a plenty of quickstarts covering some of the most important aspects of PicketLink Federation: SAML based SSO, WS-Trust support and so forth. The repository for those quickstarts is located at https://github.com/picketlink2/picketlink-quickstarts.
The best way to get those quickstarts up and running is using the Section 1.6, “PicketLink Installer”. Usually, when using PicketLink Federation you don't ship the libraries inside your deployment, but you get them from the container where it is deployed. That is exactly what the installer does (among other things), it will prepare your JBoss EAP installation with the PicketLink JBoss Modules. The installer also performs some additional configuration to an existing JBoss EAP 6 installation in order to get the quickstarts up and running, such as changing your standalone.xml and deploying the example applications. Is just a matter of run the installer, start the server and start using the examples !
Users of PicketLink 2.1 series should start using the 2.5 version of the federation libraries. Once JBoss EAP is updated with the new module organization for 2.5 version, the 2.1 series will be deprecated.
PicketLink can be used to solve the most simple as well some of the most advanced security use cases. The main objective of the quickstarts is to cover most of use cases as we can, so people can quickly understand and start solving their own security-related problems based on what we're offering.
We would be very glad to have your contribution to our quickstarts list. If you have any suggestion about a new example, please create a JIRA and describe what you're looking for: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/PLINK.
You can also contribute by sending a Pull Request to the PicketLink Quickstarts repository which the code of your example application. Just follow the Contributing Guidelines from http://site-jdf.rhcloud.com/quickstarts/get-involved/.