Technical Documentation

GEARS Plone Quick start

This page will help you get up and running within the GEARS portal.

Plone userguide

An help to add content in GEARS portal.

The Definitive Guide to Plone

The main documentation/book freely available to use/manage/develop with the Plone CMS (Thanks to EnfoldSystem).

Fédération de services (FR only)

Courte explication sur le principe de la fédération de services (et d'identité) basée sur les spécifications du consortium Liberty Alliance.

Liberty Alliance Lasso Library (EN only)

Homepage with documentation about how to use Lasso Library with existing services to add the identity federation feature.

Authentic - Administrator Guide

Authentic is an identity management solution (an Identity Provider) designed for identity federation and Single Sign-On in conformity with Liberty Alliance norms and standards(ID-FF 1.2 and ID-WSF). It uses the Lasso library which is certified by the Liberty Alliance consortium. Lasso and Authentic are released under the terms of the GNU/GPL license and are both used to provide Services and Identities Federation in this Project.

LARPE - Identity Proxy Server (EN Only)

A quick documentation on the Identity Proxy Server used to support identity federation with the Strategy Blueprint Service.

Liberty Authentication PlugIn for Plone (EN only)

LibertyAuthPlugin is Zope PAS Liberty Authentication plugin allowing to authenticate users via Liberty SSO system. Its Liberty compliance relies on Lasso, a free (GNU GPL) implementation of the Liberty Alliance specifications. This Plug-in have been developed to integrate Plone in an e-Learning SOA for this project.

Gears Liberty Alliance authentication plug-in for Elgg (EN only)

Here is a very early draft release of the Liberty Alliance plug-in for Elgg: http://elgg.net/elggcoding/files/5209 This plug-in relies on lasso-php library (http://lasso.entrouvert.org/) from Entr'ouvert. It has been used to demonstrate identity federation provided by the European project GEARS during the last ePortfolio plugfest in October 2006 in Oxford (http://www.eife-l.org/news/ep2006).

Elgg documentation (EN only)

From this page you can find all documentation information related to the Elgg opensource social ePortfolio software (About, Quick start, User Manual, Installation, Developper section...).