Parleys.com: SAML v2

Discover the basics of single sign-on and how SAML assertions are finding their way into projects like OpenSSO, NetBeans and Glassfish to secure web services. SAML V2.0, approved by OASIS in March 2005, is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information. Beyond defining the industry-standard protocol for cross domain Web single sign-on (SSO), SAML is a keystone of higher level specifications such as Web Services Interoperability Basic Security Profile (WS-I BSP), the Liberty Alliance's Identity Web Service Framework (ID-WSF) and even Microsoft's Cardspace.