Using the Fedlet with Oracle Identity Federation (OIF)
The Fedlet was first introduced in Sun's OpenSSO product. In a nutshell the Fedlet is a light weight SAML relying party implementation that is "pre-baked" with all of the right meta data needed to join a federation. Typically a large Identity Provider creates a Fedlets for smaller partners that wish to leverage the providers identity infrastructure. These partners do not need to know the intricacies of SAML as the Fedlet is pre-configured. The Identity provider packages a Fedlet as a Java .war file or a .Net assembly that the partner can deploy. The Fedlet has a simple API that is used to log the user in at the Identity provider and obtain information about the federated user that the provider has chosen to share. As a prerequisite OIF must be installed, and the Fedlet distribution downloaded and unzipped. The latest version of the Fedlet is 11.1.1.3 and can be downloaded from Oracle EDelivery (look under Fusion Middleware). You also need a se...