DRAMA Releases PDP Framework

Hi all,

 

The DRAMA Project (http://drama.ramp.org.au)
has recently released a standalone web services based PDP implementation that
makes use of Sun's XACML implementation.

 

The PDP implementation provides
two web services. The first is the PDP itself which allows for the evaluation
of XACML requests. The second is a policy administration interface (PAP –
Policy Administration Point in XACML architecture) which allows adding, deleting,
updating and searching of policies to the policy store.

 

For the policy store, the PDP
makes use of the Berkeley DB XML database, which is freely available from
Oracle at http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/xml/index.html. This
allows for large numbers of policies to be stored while still providing
excellent performance. Being an XML database, there is no required structure
for the policies stored within and as such allows for policies with arbitrary
complexity, which is one of the strengths of XACML.

 

The implementation provides
pluggable interfaces for Attribute Finders, Policy Combination Algorithms and
even substituting in your own custom policy store should you wish it.

 

The software is released under the
Apache 2.0 License.

 

User Documentation can be found at:

http://drama.ramp.org.au/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/MelcoePDPDoc

 

Software can be downloaded from:

http://drama.ramp.org.au/software/

 

Nishen Naidoo

Research Coordinator

Macquarie E-Learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE)

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY NSW 2109

E-Mail:


Phone:  +61 (0)2
98506531

Mobile: +61 (0)4 30006783

Fax:    +61
(0)2 98506527

http://www.melcoe.mq.edu.au/

 

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