A Custom OIF Authentication Engine
Oracle Identity Federation (OIF) provides a flexible architecture that enables new authentication engines to be plugged in to the IdP flow. There are a number of standard Authentication Engines that come out of the box such as Oracle Access Manager (OAM), LDAP and Oracle SSO (OSSO). Most deployments will use the OAM integration, but there are some scenarios where another mechanism is desired. This posting will show you how to create and configure a custom authentication engine for OIF. In this example we will demonstrate the engine calling out to a simple web service that implements the authentication logic. Authentication Flow The authentication flow for our custom auth module is shown below. Recall the Fedlet from our previous article, which is a light weight SAML relying party implementation. The interesting bits here are the CustomAuth engine and the WebService that implements our authentication logic. Project Sample Code The sample code for this