Sunday, August 12, 2012

OAuth2 Demo in Talend ESB

Talend ESB ships many interesting, advanced examples demonstrating CXF and Camel in action. The demos attempt to show something interesting, something that one may try to do in the production.

JAX-RS OAuth2 demo has been evolving as a POC demo with the main goal to stress  CXF OAuth2 services and make sure that they can cope with what one might want to consider as a medium complexity OAuth2 deployment.

The demo shows 4 parties cooperating with or depending on each other, where Social.com service offers the registered users an option to reserve a table at the favorite restaurant with the help of Restaurant Reservations service (with the latter depending on its own partner).  A classical 3-leg OAuth flow (Authorization Code Flow in OAuth2) is demonstrated with most of the demo depending on CXF alone to do most of the work (OAuth2, Presentations, etc).

The end user (individual Social.com resource owner) can approve or disapprove a client (Restaurant Reservations) request to read and possibly update the user's calendar.  The demo can be run as a simple OAuth2 demo with all the endpoints running within the same container or as an advanced demo showing how a user can interact with the application supported by many application containers, with the SAML SSO feature introduced to improve the user experience - this advanced option will be covered in detail in one of the future posts.

Please check this presentation I did at JAX-2012 in Mainz for more information.
I'd like to encourage users to try the demo, provide the feedback and git pull requests :-)

Enjoy.

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