[OGSA-AUTHZ] [Fwd: [xacml-users] DRAMA Releases PDP Framework]

[David Chadwick]

Hi All

Macquarie University have just released a web services based XACML PDP. 
It will be interesting to see if it can be plugged into our Authz 
interface using our XACML profile. If anyone tests it can they notify 
the list of the results

thanks

David


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Subject: 	[xacml-users] DRAMA Releases PDP Framework
Date: 	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:17:54 +1100
From: 	Nishen Naidoo <nishen at melcoe.mq.edu.au>
To: 	<xacml-users at lists.oasis-open.org>



Hi all,



The DRAMA Project (http://drama.ramp.org.au) has recently released a
standalone web services based PDP implementation that makes use of Sun's
XACML implementation.



The PDP implementation provides two web services. The first is the PDP
itself which allows for the evaluation of XACML requests. The second is
a policy administration interface (PAP – Policy Administration Point in
XACML architecture) which allows adding, deleting, updating and
searching of policies to the policy store.



For the policy store, the PDP makes use of the Berkeley DB XML database,
which is freely available from Oracle at
http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/xml/index.html. This allows
for large numbers of policies to be stored while still providing
excellent performance. Being an XML database, there is no required
structure for the policies stored within and as such allows for policies
with arbitrary complexity, which is one of the strengths of XACML.



The implementation provides pluggable interfaces for Attribute Finders,
Policy Combination Algorithms and even substituting in your own custom
policy store should you wish it.



The software is released under the Apache 2.0 License.



User Documentation can be found at:

http://drama.ramp.org.au/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/MelcoePDPDoc



Software can be downloaded from:

http://drama.ramp.org.au/software/



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Nishen Naidoo

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Macquarie E-Learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE)

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