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APIs for Federation Security Services

The following APIs provide support for Federation Security Services.

• Policy Management API
• Java Message Consumer Plugin API
• Java Assertion Generator Plugin API

Policy Management API

The C and Perl Policy Management APIs provide new language elements in support of SiteMinder federation. These new language elements include:

• C structures and Perl packages for federation objects. The objects include affiliate domains, Affiliates, Identity and Service providers, Resource and Account Partners.
• C functions and Perl methods for SAML 1.x, SAML 2.0, and WS-Federation configuration.
• SAML 2.0 metadata constants.
• WS-Federation metadata constants.

For more information about the Policy Management API, see the SiteMinder Programming Guide for Perl or the SiteMinder Programming Guide for C.

Java Message Consumer Plugin API

The SiteMinder Java MessageConsumerPlugin API implements the SAML 1.x, SAML 2.0 and WS-Federation Message Consumer Extension interface. This API allows you to perform your own processing for user disambiguation and authentication. After you customize code for your own requirements, integrate the custom plug-in into SiteMinder to further process and manipulate a SAML assertion response or the WS-Federation security token response.

For more information, see the SiteMinder Programming Guide for Java.

Java Assertion Generator Plugin API

The SiteMinder Java Assertion Generator Plugin API implements the Assertion Generator Framework. Using the plug-in, you can modify the assertion content for your business agreements between partners and vendors.

For more information, see the SiteMinder Programming Guide for Java.