AppFabric Access Control Basic Components

Management Portal

The AppFabric portal provides a user interface that you can use to create a service namespace and manage AppFabric Access Control resources for that service namespace. You can perform management operations through the portal such as retrieving your management keys and viewing the URIs associated with your service namespace. While you can accomplish these management tasks programmatically, the portal is useful for your initial service service namespace set-up and configuration activities.

Management Service

The AppFabric Access Control management service is a set of REST API that enables service consumers to programmatically interact with AppFabric Access Control resources. The management service uses the well-known REST protocol (HTTPS), methods (GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE), and their behaviors.

Token-Exchange Endpoint

AppFabric Access Control exposes a single endpoint that issues tokens. It accepts plain text token requests, signed token requests, and SAML token requests and always returns a signed SWT.

SDK

AppFabric Access Control code samples and a management sample are included in the AppFabric SDK.