Sun Releases Open Source XACML Language

LowneWulf writes "An InternetNews.com article mentions that the OASIS standards group today ratified the Extensible Access Control Markup Language 1.0 specification. But even better, Sun Microsystems Labs has backed this up with an open-source version in Java on Sourceforge."

Comments

How?

[JanusFury]

How can a language be open source? A language doesn't need source; it's a syntax. Compilers need source, not languages. 'Open Source Language' sounds like more hype to me. I may be stupid, but I don't know of any truly open source implementations of the Java that this 'Open Source Language' is in (Last I checked, Sun had a pretty strict licensing scheme going for Java implementations)

I'd hardley say useless

[Anonymous Coward]

there are real reasons why this new markup language is needed. It is intended for complex distributed processes that cross several application domains. the common example is a travel agent, who needs to book travel plans for a customer. The booking includes, flights, trains, cars, hotels and motels. Given the complexity of booking that many items in one single transaction across multiple booking systems, you need a common authentication mechanism. What would you prefer? Everyone write their own authen scheme, which may be secure, but will take a couple months to implement. Multiply by the number of companies the travel agent connects to book reservations.

there are those who disagree, but those whose jobs require complexity, it is a step towards easier integration. Microsoft should just go with the architecture Oasis has laid out for ebXML and dump their piece of junk which originally had no concept of coreography.

"Open source" reference implementation

[yerricde]

How can a language be open source?

I consider a language to be "open source" if it has a reference implementation available to the public as OSI Certified(TM) open source software.