[Bodington-developers] Guanxi 1.2.0 (stable) Released.

[Sean M. <se...@sm...>]

Guanxi is a Java application which supports federated authentication  
and authorization services [AAS]. It includes OS implementations of  
the SAML specification and the Shibboleth extended profile  
specification for the IdP, as well as other functions which support  
Shibboleth in applications which require local accounts to function.   
Guanxi has been funded as part of the JISC Core Middleware Programme.  
Guanxi has extended the Bodington VLE to enable Shibboleth IdP  
functionality out of the box with Bodington.

This release, 1.2.0, is a significant upgrade and stable and includes  
new features in all three Guanxi components, including the IdP, the  
WAYF and Common.  Also included in the update are gx_lib, a package  
of supporting libs, and SAMUEL.

SAMUEL stands for [SAM]l [U]sed in [EL]earning and is a partial  
implementation of the OASIS SAML 1.1 specification.
It's a standalone module, developed as part of the Guanxi project and  
is used to SAML enable applications. It's
self contained in that is also includes XML utilities.

More information on some of the related items can be found at the  
following urls:

https://guanxi.sourceforge.net/

http://guanxi.uhi.ac.uk/xwiki/bin/view/v1/2 (includes a complete  
changelog)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_middleware

http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bodington/



You can contact the developers and many implementors through the  
gua...@li... mailing list.



Sean Mehan

Guanxi Project Manager