It took quite a while, but by now it is out. Please welcome the Windows CardSpace Information Card extensions for OpenSSO:

https://opensso.dev.java.net/source/browse/opensso/extensions/authnicip/

When I started working on this last spring, I was not even hoping to see this released in open source and part of the OpenSSO extensions family in less than a year. It took the goodwill and talent of quite a few people to get this off the ground, but with the public release of this code and the upcoming OSIS interop during the RSA onference, OpenSSO is now "speaking ISIP" ...

tag: CardSpace, OpenSSO, InfoCards

This is seriously groundbreaking: Clemens (also here) just finished an example of a Metro client accessing Microsoft's BizTalk Services (aka Internet Service Bus). "Well", you might ask, "what is so groundbreaking about this? Isn't this what this whole web services thingy was supposed to achieve? Interoperability?!"

Yes, indeed. However, this is the first time ever (to my knowledge) that Microsoft is releasing JEE code, built with Metro within NetBeans, as part of an SDK. Getting there took quite a while, and was largely enabled by Sun and Microsoft working very closely together in a series of interop-plugfests. The latest installment of these got (especially) WS-Trust interoperability to a point where you can now use the client implementation in Metro to access the STS provided by the .NET Framework.

Congrats to Clemens, but also the Metro team (namely Jiandong and Harold).

tag: Interoperability, WS-Trust, Metro, BizTalk Services