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Not surprisingly, my first post of the new year is on Vordel's integration with Oracle Entitlements Server. Mark O'Neill, the Vordel CTO, has posted a video demo of the integration. It follows the same basic use case as the Oracle Entitlements Server-Oracle Web Services Manager integration that I did last year, except through the magic of the gateway, its protecting a REST service.
A little background on this integration. This was an integration that the A-Team helped Vordel with a while back. What's really nice about it is that it uses the Java SM. This means that all of the calls are made inside of the Gateway. So if we take the real world scenario described in the demo of the trader making a call to get a price, then performance is super critical. A more naive approach would be to call out using XACML. The problem here is that the additional over head of creating an XML request, sending in, parsing in inside of the WS-SM, packing up the response, sending it back, and parsing again is > 100 ms. Did you even know a trader that could wait 100 ms? Also there is the additional operational complexity of having to stand up two instance of the WS-SM so that there is no single point of failure.
Ultimately, I think the best solution would be OpenAz...then you get a standard and likely an in-process implementation. Now, if you have a XACML endpoint and want to call out - Vordel does this OOTB. If you want this approach, my recommendation would be to run the XACML PDP from Oracle or other XACML vendors co-located on the Gateway (you can run the gateway as a software appliance), and then leverage the XML processing power of Vordel.
The point here is that the quality of the integration and the quality of the platform does matter. A good tight integration, like the one between Oracle Entitlements Server and Vordel has real benefits (lower latency, operational efficiency) to customers.
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Josh Bregman has over 15 years experience architecting Java and JEE based security and identity management solutions. Josh is the Chief Solutions Architect at Vordel where he leads up the North American Pre-Sales team. Prior to Vordel, Josh worked for three years at Oracle as a Consulting Solutions Architect at where he advised Oracle and its key customers on technology, architecture, and implementation best practices. Prior to joining Oracle, Josh worked at BEA Systems for 3 years as the Enterprise Security Specialist for the Americas. In this role, Josh worked with customers to develop security solutions for WebLogic Server and related BEA technologies. Before joining BEA, Josh worked at Netegrity/CA for 5 years where he designed and developed a number of Java based security products, including IdentityMinder and SiteMinder Application Server Agents for BEA WebLogic Server and IBM WebSphere.Josh has also held engineering positions at GTE/Verizon Labs and IBM Global Services. Josh received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester. Josh and had spoken at a number of industry conferences including the RSA Security Conference, BEA World and Oracle Open World. Josh was a contributing author to Wiley's Professional Oracle WebLogic Server (2009). He is a lead contributors and architect of the OpenAz open-source project - an initiative to standardize and promote the adoption of externalized authorization. He is also the author of the Vordel XML Gateway blog at http://xmlgateway.blogspot.com.
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