SPAN Web Ressources

Identity Management

• Liberty Alliance
• Lasso - Liberty Alliance Single Sign On
• OpenSSO
• SourceID Open Source Federated Identity Management
• Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
  • SAML basics - A technical introduction to the Security Assertion Markup Language (Eve Maler, Sun) (PPT Introduction)
  • Security page of OASIS (SAML)
  • OpenSAML
• Identity 2.0, only loosely related but very entertaining: http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

Communication Protocols

• SOAP: SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework, SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts
• SCTP: RFC 2960, SCTP for beginners
• BEEP: RFC 3080, RFC 3081, www.beepcore.org, SOAP-Binding: RFC 3288
• XMPP: RFC 3920, www.xmpp.org

Cryptography

• http://www.bouncycastle.org/ lightweight cryptographic API, should be useable with J2ME
• JSR 177 (still incomplete) specification to use the SIM card for security operations

XML

• kXML 2 implementing http://www.xmlpull.org/
• Pull API quick introduction

Zero-Configuration

• ZeroConf
• Bonjour (Apple)

W800i Software

• W800i White Paper (containing more detailed specs on the phone's capabilities)
• Sony Ericsson J2ME SDK

Bluetooth

• Bluetooth-Specs (the relevant core-specification is given by "Core Specification v2.0 + EDR")
• JSR-000082 Java APIs for Bluetooth

JSR82 implementations for the PC (BlueZ):

• Impronto (free for universities and hobbyist programmers)
• Avetana JSR 82 14 day demo license, full license costs 25 Euros