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The Apache CXF Fediz plugin for an Apache CXF web service contains two separate pieces of functionality. The first is a CallbackHandler that allows the SAML Token of the Web SSO session to be used by the CXF Web Services Stack, i.e. for delegation (available since 1.1). The second is a full WS-Federation/SAML SSO RP plugin based solely on Apache CXF JAX-RS, which is container independent (available since 1.2.0).
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The new CXF plugin for WS-Federation available from Fediz 1.2.0 means that it is now possible to add support for WS-Federation to your JAX-RS CXF service without having to specify a container-specific plugin. Also note that from the 1.4.5 release, the Apache CXF Fediz plugin also supports SAML SSO. Here is an example Spring based configuration:
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