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Apache CXF Fediz ships plugins for Jetty 8 and 9 instances. Previous versions of Fediz shipped plugins for Jetty 7. From release 1.4.5, the Jetty 8 and 9 plugins support both WS-Federation and SAML SSO.
This page describes how to enable Federation for a Jetty 7/8 instance hosting Relying Party (RP) applications. This configuration is not for a separate Tomcat instance hosting the Fediz IDP and IDP STS WARs, or hosts for third-party applications that use Fediz STS-generated SAML assertions for authentication. After this configuration is done, the Jetty-RP instance will validate the incoming SignInResponse created by the IDP server.
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