| Welcome to Apache CXF Fediz! |
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| Fediz helps you secure your web applications by delegating security enforcement |
| to the underlying application server. With Fediz, authentication is externalized |
| from your web application to an identity provider installed as a dedicated server component. |
| The supported standard is WS-Federation 1.2 Passive Requestor Profile. |
| Fediz supports Claims Based Access Control beyond Role Based Access Control (RBAC). |
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| Fediz includes the following feature set: |
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| WS-Federation 1.1/1.2 |
| SAML 1.1/2.0 Tokens |
| Custom token support |
| Publish WS-Federation Metadata document |
| Role information encoded as AttributeStatement in SAML 1.1/2.0 tokens |
| Claims information provided by FederationPrincipal interface |
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| Export Notice |
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| This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in |
| which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, |
| possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of |
| encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please |
| check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the |
| import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to |
| see if this is permitted. See <http://www.wassenaar.org/> for more |
| information. |
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| The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and |
| Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity |
| Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security |
| software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric |
| algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation |
| distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception |
| ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS |
| Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object |
| code and source code. |
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| The following provides more details on the included cryptographic |
| software: |
| http://santuario.apache.org/ |
| http://www.bouncycastle.org/ |
| http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/ |
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| Getting Started |
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| For an Apache CXF Fediz source distribution, please read BUILDING.txt |
| in this folder for instructions on building Apache CXF Fediz. |
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| For an Apache CXF Fediz binary distribution, please read release_notes.txt |
| for installation instructions and list of supported and unsupported |
| features. |
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| Check the Fediz website for the latest news: |
| http://cxf.apache.org/fediz.html |
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| If you need more help try talking to us on our mailing lists: |
| http://cxf.apache.org/mailing-lists.html |
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| If you find any issues with Fediz, please submit reports with JIRA here: |
| https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FEDIZ |
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| We welcome contributions, and encourage you to get involved in the CXF |
| community. If you'd like to learn more about how you can contribute, please |
| see: |
| http://cxf.apache.org/getting-involved.html |
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| Thank you for using CXF Fediz! |
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| The Apache CXF Team |
| http://cxf.apache.org/ |