[news.eclipse.technology.alf] ALF adopted by a commercial product

["Brian Carroll" <bcarroll@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Since December 2007 when it went GA, every copy of the commercial Serena 
Business Mashups product that ships contains Eclipse ALF.
ALF provides the eventing, orchestration framework, identity and security 
for Serena Business Mashups.
1. For eventing, ALF provides the ALF EventManager, a component that filters 
and routes SOA-based events.
2. The pluggable orchestration framework is defined by ALF.  ALF does not 
specify a particular BPEL engine, but allow users to provide their own 
favorite engine.  ALF does provide guidance and best practices for 
constructing orchestrations that can be triggered by ALF Events.
3. The identity and security infrastructure provides a Relying Party wrapper 
for web and web service applications, and an independent Logon User 
Interface that implements the WS-Federation Passive Requestor Profile to 
support Single SignOn (SSO).  ALF also leverages components from the Eclipse 
Higgins project, including the Security Token Server (which includes the 
Identity Attribute Server and JNDI LDAP Context Provider). The Higgins STS 
issues SAML Assertions , which are used for SSO and to convey identity to 
all the applications involved in a BPEL orchestration.

Regards,
Brian Carroll