2003-04-24

UNITEnheten för IT-stöd

What is going on in:Sweden

Joakim Björklund

Director of IT services division

Linköpings universitet

joakim@unit.liu.se

2003-04-24

UNITEnheten för IT-stöd

Codex

• Swedish higher education CODe EXchange (CODEX)

• http://www.codex-se.org/• All Nordic higher education institutions are

welcomed (and some others too). • Share ideas and gain information!• Most universities has a “portal” of some kind –

mostly homegrown

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Codex

• Four universities has formed a ”task force” to build a common framework for uPortal implementations at the universities.

• The universities are: Chalmers, Linköping, Stockholm and Umeå.

• LPW – Ladok on the Web• SPOCP – Authentication and authorization • LiUPass – Authentication and Single-Sign-On• (Plus also evaluate CAS and Pubcookie)

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UNITEnheten för IT-stöd

Codex

• LPW – Ladok on the Web is a “middleware” to access data in the Swedish national student documentation system – LADOK.

• LPW – SOAP (XML/HTTP) interface.• Written in Java.• Most Swedish universities will sooner or later use

LPW-services.

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Codex

• SPOCP - http://www.umu.se/it/projupp/spocp/• SPOCP (is short for Simple Policy Control Project) is a

cooperative project whose task is to provide the partners with software for authentication and authorization services. The partners are 5 Swedish universities (Karolinska Institutet, Lunds Universitet, Stockholms Universitet, Umeå Universitet and Uppsala Universitet) and Uninett, the Norwegian National Research Network.

• The project started informally May 10, 2002, and is planned to end on May 31, 2003. It follows a feasibility study done between August 2001 and March 2002. 

• The open source site is http:/www.spocp.org/, the software is currently available at ftp://ftp.su.se/pub/spocp

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Codex

• SPOCP uses S-expressions to form the rules for the authorization.

• There are hooks to retrieve data from external sources.

• Interfaces to several programming languages – Java, Perl etc…

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Codex

• LiUPass is a Single-Sign-On system that can be hooked in to uPortal and other applications (like Achievo (a PHP-app)).

• It provides a 75% SSO with SunOne Mail/Calender (ie SunOne trusts the cookies from LiUPass but LiUPass can not yet use SunOne cookies).

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Codex

• We expect to publish our results on a Sourceforge similar system. This will be our Project-portal.

• Code will be available!• All four universities has agreed to put information

on most system development projects in the project-portal.