Easy identity using rest

Very execiting... expecially because they are saying that is okay to be lazy .. :-)

To be lazy we have to Delegate identity service to other (Services) which is nice... :-) seperation of concerns.

This seems to be a very good way of doing authentication and authorization of
flavors of indentity services

They showed a demo where the where putting some plugin connectors (filters) to standard containers (GlassFish)

This work like a charm and was a very easy way of adding authorization and authentication to REST based web services.
Combined with the new REST jsr (i think its JSR301 but dont kill me if im off) this would be an easy way of exposing the services layer in a secure way to the frontend layer.

I also saw Doug Tidwell from IBM, making an excellent presentation where he was able to position REST and WS-* against each other... and to quate him, whether u should use one or the other .. that depends.. :-)

And yes I love the cloud..