Key Features of AppFabric Access Control

For this release, AppFabric Access Control focuses on authorization for REST Web services and the AppFabric Service Bus. The following is a summary of AppFabric Access Control features:

• Cross-platform support. AppFabric Access Control can be accessed from applications that run on on almost any operating system or platform that can perform HTTPS operations.
  
• Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) version 2.0 integration. This includes the ability to parse and publish WS-Federation metadata.
  
• Lightweight authentication and authorization using symmetric keys and HMACSHA256 signatures.
  
• Configurable rules that enable mapping input claims to output claims.
  
• Web Resource Authorization Protocol (WRAP) and Simple Web Token (SWT) support.