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The Delegation Service is a new component in Globus Toolkit 4.0. This component provides an interface for delegation of credentials to a hosting environment. This enables a single delegated credential to be shared across multiple invocations of services on that hosting environment (e.g. it could be used for multiple GRAM job submissions or across GRAM and RFT submissions.) It also provides a means for credential renewal.
Features new in GT 4.0
- Provides an interface for the delegation and renewal of credentials to a host.
- Allows for a single delegated credential to be reused across multiple service invocations (e.g. GRAM jobs).
Other Supported Features
- The Delegation Service is a new component in GT 4.0.
Deprecated Features
- The Delegation Service is a new component in GT 4.0.
Usability improvements for the Delegation Service:
- Better validation of values passed via command line arguments.
- Use of the client side security descriptor in the utility API for accessing delegated credentials by services in same container.
The Delegation Service depends on the following GT components:
- WS Authentication and Authorization
- Java WS Core
The Delegation Service depends on the following 3rd party software:
- Apache Axis
Tested Platforms for Delegation Service
- Windows XP
- Linux (Red Hat 7.3)
Tested Containers for Delegation Service
- Java WS Core container
- Tomcat 5.0.30
- WS-Security
- WS-Security: X.509 Certificate Tokens
- WS-Trust
- RFC 3820 Proxy Certificates
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