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.
This release, 1.0.0, is stable and has been successfully deployed in several institutions in the UK for production service. It has already been tied into the Bodington VLE and is available in the latest release of that software for an easily deployed testbed of Shibboleth for elearning. More information on some of the related items can be found at the following urls:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/guanxi/