Web Service Authentication using OpenID

Question

I\'m going to be developing a REST-ful Web Service for a new public website. The idea behind the web service is to have 3rd parties develop fully functional UIs for the busi

Answer 1

We have been working on a project to integrate OpenID Authentication for SOAP web services. You can find our project at http://code.google.com/p/ws-sandhana/.

You can provide Single Sing On to your web services using OpenID authentication and you can enforce the trusted OpenID Providers and required attributes of the users by defining service security policies.

This is an open source implementation on Apache Rampart which is the security module for Apache Axis2 web service engine. You can find our blog at http://sandhana-project.blogspot.com/ for more information.