SANTA CLARA, California, March 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Release of OpenLiberty-J Extends the Proven Interoperability,
Privacy, and Security of the Liberty Web Services Framework to Identity
Consuming Java Applications, Public Webcast Scheduled for April 2

OpenLiberty.org, the global open source community working to provide
developers with resources and support for building interoperable, secure and
privacy-respecting identity services, today announced the release of
OpenLiberty-J, an open source Liberty Web Services (ID-WSF 2.0) client
library designed to ease the development and accelerate the deployment of
secure, standards-compliant Web 2.0 Applications. OpenLiberty.org will hold a
public webcast to review OpenLiberty-J on April 2 at 8:00am US PT.

OpenLiberty-J enables application developers to quickly and easily
incorporate the enterprise-grade security and privacy capabilities of the
proven interoperable Liberty Alliance Identity Web Services Framework into
identity consuming applications such as those found in enterprise service
oriented architectures (SOAs), Web 2.0 social networking environments and
client-based applications on PC's and mobile devices. Released as beta today
under the Apache 2.0 license, OpenLiberty-J code is available for review and
download at OpenLiberty.org.

"With the release of OpenLiberty-J, developers now have a comprehensive
library of open source code to begin driving security and privacy into
applications requiring identity management functionality," said Conor P.
Cahill, Principal Engineer, Intel and OpenLiberty-J contributor.
"OpenLiberty.org encourages the global open source community to begin working
with the code and welcomes contributions to further the evolution of
OpenLiberty-J as the project moves from beta to general availability later
this year."

OpenLiberty-J is based on J2SE, and open source XML, SAML, and web
services libraries from the Apache Software Foundation and Internet2,
including OpenSAML, a product of the Internet2 Shibboleth project. The
library implements the Liberty Advanced Client functionality of Liberty Web
Services standards. Developers can immediately begin using the OpenLiberty-J
code to build a wide range of new identity applications that are secure and
offer users a high degree of online privacy protection.

Ensuring OpenLiberty-J Interoperability Across Networks and Devices

OpenLiberty.org is committed to providing application developers, service
providers and relying parties with assurances that identity applications
built with OpenLiberty-J have proven to interoperate. The OpenLiberty.org
community is currently developing online testing services to help accelerate
application development. OpenLiberty-J has already successfully demonstrated
informal interoperability against the open source ZXID (http://zxid.org/) and
certified Liberty Web Services interoperable products from Symlabs.
OpenLiberty-J is scheduled to participate in the next round of formal Liberty
Alliance Interoperable(TM) testing in Q3 2008 to ensure that applications
built using this Java library will interoperate with Liberty-enabled products
and deployments worldwide.

"OpenLiberty-J provides Java developers with a robust, secure option for
identity-enabling SOA and Web 2.0 applications," said Asa Hardcastle, CTO of
Zenn New Media and Technical Lead of OpenLiberty.org. "With the release of
OpenLiberty-J, enterprises and organizations are a significant step closer to
being able to deploy and manage Web 2.0 applications that are interoperable,
secure and privacy-respecting."

About OpenLiberty.org and the OpenLiberty-J Library

OpenLiberty.org is an open community of developers formed in January 2007
to coordinate synergies among global open source initiatives and to identify
and deliver the open source libraries developers need to build applications
that take advantage of the features in Liberty Alliance standards, including:
the Liberty Identity Governance Framework (IGF), Liberty Advanced Client,
Liberty Federation (SAML 2.0), and Liberty Web Services (ID-WSF2.0 and
ID-SIS). The OpenLiberty-J Java Library released today has been developed by
OpenLiberty.org contributors led by Zenn New Media with significant input
from AOL, HP, Intel, Internet2, Sun Microsystems, Symlabs and the OpenSAML
community. OpenLiberty.org is a self-governing community operating
independently from Liberty Alliance who continues to sponsor much of its
activity. More information is available at http://OpenLiberty.org.

About the April 2 OpenLiberty.org Public Webcast

Hosted by Asa Hardcastle, the public webcast, Understanding and
Leveraging the Open Source Liberty Client Library will take place on April 2
at 8:00am US PT. The event will outline the functionality of the
OpenLiberty-J client code and detail the 2008 roadmap for driving the project
from beta to general availability. The webcast will provide an overview of
OpenLiberty.org, discuss projects in the works and what the community expects
to deliver in the future. Participants will understand how to begin building
identity consuming applications with OpenLiberty-J today. Registration and
more information about the webcast is available at http://tinyurl.com/ywpdze.

CONTACT:
    
    Russell DeVeau
    Liberty Alliance
    +1-508-487-6102 - Office
    +1-908-251-1549 - Mobile
    russ@projectliberty.org
    AOL IM (Russ DeVeau): devcommruss


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