FYI: The Java Identity Api - public review ongoing

ABSTRACT:

      

      The objective of this project is to define application programming
      interfaces and identity interaction models to facilitate the use
      and creation of identity by Java applications. To meet this
      objective, this specification defines a representation
          for identity in Java, an attribute
      service as a point of governance and interaction with identity,
      and an identity repository integration
      architecture in support of distributed sources of identity.

    
The identity representation is integrated with the Java security
      model and captures identity attributes as named, metadata
      qualified (e.g., issuer, validity period, usage constraints)
      representations of identity values. The attribute service is a
      protected service from which applications request interfaces to
      operate on the content of the integrated identity repositories. In
      addition to value based interactions with identity, and in support
      of privacy preserving exchange of identity, the attribute also
      service provides interfaces to obtain and operate on references to
      identity attributes. Above the interfaces provided by the
      attribute service, the specification also defines annotations and
      interceptor bindings that provide application developers with a
      simple means to cause identity attributes to be obtained or
      provided to the attribute service by an annotated application.

    More information available at:

    http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr351/index.html