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PicketLink Reference Documentation

PicketLink

Version 2.6.0.CR2

Table of Contents

1. Overview
1.1. What is PicketLink?
1.2. Where do I get started?
1.2.1. QuickStarts
1.2.2. API Documentation
1.3. Modules
1.3.1. Base module
1.3.2. Identity Management
1.3.3. Federation
1.4. License
1.5. Maven Dependencies
1.6. PicketLink Installer
1.7. Help us improve the docs!
2. Authentication
2.1. Overview
2.2. Authentication API - the Identity bean
2.3. The Authentication Process
2.3.1. A Basic Authenticator
2.3.2. Multiple Authenticator Support
2.3.3. Credentials
2.3.4. DefaultLoginCredentials
3. Identity Management - Overview
3.1. Introduction
3.1.1. Injecting the Identity Management Objects
3.1.2. Interacting with PicketLink IDM During Application Startup
3.1.3. Configuring the Default Partition
3.2. Getting Started - The 5 Minute Guide
3.3. Identity Model
3.3.1. Which Identity Model Should My Application Use?
3.4. Creating a Custom Identity Model
3.4.1. The @AttributeProperty Annotation
3.4.2. The @Unique Annotation
3.5. Creating Custom Relationships
3.6. Partition Management
3.6.1. Creating Custom Partitions
4. Identity Management - Credential Validation and Management
4.1. Authentication
4.2. Managing Credentials
4.3. Credential Handlers
4.3.1. The CredentialStore interface
4.3.2. The CredentialStorage interface
4.4. Built-in Credential Handlers
4.4.1. Username/Password-based Credential Handler
4.4.2. DIGEST-based Credential Handler
4.4.3. X509-based Credential Handler
4.4.4. Time-based One Time Password Credential Handler
4.5. Implementing a Custom CredentialHandler
5. Identity Management - Basic Identity Model
5.1. Basic Identity Model
5.1.1. Utility Class for the Basic Identity Model
5.2. Managing Users, Groups and Roles
5.2.1. Managing Users
5.2.2. Managing Groups
5.3. Managing Relationships
5.3.1. Built In Relationship Types
5.4. Realms and Tiers
6. Identity Management - Attribute Management
6.1. Overview
6.2. Formal attributes
6.3. Ad-hoc attributes
7. Identity Management - Configuration
7.1. Configuration
7.1.1. Architectural Overview
7.1.2. Default Configuration
7.1.3. Providing a Custom Configuration
7.1.4. Initializing the PartitionManager
7.1.5. Programmatic Configuration Overview
7.1.6. Providing Multiple Configurations
7.1.7. Providing Multiple Stores for a Configuration
7.1.8. Configuring Credential Handlers
7.1.9. Identity Context Configuration
7.1.10. IDM configuration from XML file
8. Identity Management - Working with JPA
8.1. JPAIdentityStoreConfiguration
8.1.1. Default Database Schema
8.1.2. Configuring an EntityManager
8.1.3. Mapping IdentityType Types
8.1.4. Mapping Partition Types
8.1.5. Mapping Relationship Types
8.1.6. Mapping Attributes for AttributedType Types
8.1.7. Mapping a CredentialStorage type
8.1.8. Configuring the Mapped Entities
8.1.9. Providing a EntityManager
9. Identity Management - Working with LDAP
9.1. Overview
9.2. Configuration
9.2.1. Connecting to the LDAP Server
9.2.2. Mapping Identity Types
9.2.3. Mapping Relationship Types
9.2.4. Mapping a Type Hierarchies
9.2.5. Mapping Groups to different contexts
10. Identity Management - Permissions API and Permission Management
10.1. Overview
10.2. Checking permissions for the current user
10.3. ACL Permissions
10.3.1. Managing ACLs
10.3.2. Configuring resources for ACL usage
10.3.3. Restricting resource operations
10.4. PermissionResolver SPI
11. PicketLink Subsystem
11.1. Overview
11.2. Installation and Configuration
11.3. Configuring the PicketLink Dependencies for your Deployment
11.4. Domain Model
11.5. Identity Management
11.5.1. JPAIdentityStore
11.5.2. Usage Examples
11.6. Federation
11.6.1. The Federation concept (Circle of Trust)
11.6.2. Federation Domain Model
11.6.3. Usage Examples
11.6.4. Metrics and Statistics
11.7. Management Capabilities
12. Federation
12.1. Overview
12.2. SAML SSO
12.3. SAML Web Browser Profile
12.4. PicketLink SAML Specification Support
12.5. SAML v2.0
12.5.1. Which Profiles are supported ?
12.5.2. Which Bindings are supported ?
12.5.3. PicketLink Identity Provider (PIDP)
12.5.4. PicketLink Service Provider (PSP)
12.5.5. SAML Authenticators (Tomcat,JBossAS)
12.5.6. Digital Signatures in SAML Assertions
12.5.7. SAML2 Handlers
12.5.8. Single Logout
12.5.9. SAML2 Configuration Providers
12.5.10. Metadata Support
12.5.11. Token Registry
12.5.12. Standalone vs JBossAS Distribution
12.5.13. Standalone Web Applications(All Servlet Containers)
12.6. SAML v1.1
12.6.1. SAML v1.1
12.6.2. PicketLink SAML v1.1 Support
12.7. Trust
12.7.1. Security Token Server (STS)
12.8. Extensions
12.8.1. Extensions
12.8.2. PicketLinkAuthenticator
12.9. PicketLink API
12.9.1. Working with SAML Assertions
12.10. 3rd party integration
12.10.1. Picketlink as IDP, Salesforce as SP
12.10.2. Picketlink as SP, Salesforce as IDP
12.10.3. Picketlink as IDP, Google Apps as SP
13. Social Login, OpenID and OAuth2
13.1. Social Login
13.1.1. Overview of Social Login
13.1.2. Login using Facebook Connect
13.1.3. Login using Twitter
13.2. OpenID
13.3. OAuth
14. PicketLink Quickstarts
14.1. Overview
14.2. Available Quickstarts
14.3. PicketLink Federation Quickstarts
14.4. Contributing
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List of Tables

3.1. Identity Management Objects
4.1. Built-in credential types
4.2. Configuration Parameters
4.3. Configuration Parameters
8.1. IdentityType Annotations
8.2. Partition Annotations
8.3. Relationship Annotations
8.4. Partition Annotations
8.5. Partition Annotations
9.1. LDAP Connection Configuration Options

List of Examples

8.1. Example
8.2. Example
8.3. Example
8.4. Example
8.5. Example
8.6. Example
12.1. context.xml
12.2. context.xml
12.3. context.xml
12.4. context.xml
12.5. context.xml
12.6. WEB-INF/picketlink-handlers.xml
12.7. WEB-INF/picketlink-handlers.xml
12.8. WEB-INF/picketlink-handlers.xml
12.9. WEB-INF/picketlink-handlers.xml
12.10. WEB-INF/picketlink-handlers.xml
12.11. WEB-INF/picketlink-handlers.xml
12.12. WEB-INF/picketlink-handlers.xml
12.13. WEB-INF/picketlink-handlers.xml
12.14. web.xml
12.15. web.xml
12.16. jsp/login.jsp
12.17. jsp/error.jsp
12.18. STSWSClientTestCase.java
12.19. handlers.xml