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SAML Affiliate Agent Extensions Overview

The capabilities of the SAML Affiliate Agent can be extended using the two C language APIs included with Federation Services installed at the producer.

The APIs include the following:

• Persistence API—Integrates custom assertion management routines with SAML Affiliate Agent operations.

  Use this API to implement custom persistence libraries.

• Key Provider API—Provides the SAML Affiliate Agent with different encryption keys on a periodic basis. The Agent uses these keys to encrypt and decrypt its cookies.

  Use this API to implement custom key provider libraries.

You can compile your custom libraries to Solaris .so files or Windows .dll files. The libraries are dynamically linked to the SAML Affiliate Agent at runtime.