This week I got to do a SAML2 implementation again for APEX against ADFS. Actually the same setup as last year. One pitfall I fell into with open eyes, was the Redirect URI on the ‘Web SSO Partner Provider’. I entered /ords/f*, but it had to be with out the wild-card: /ords/f. But that aside.
At one step in the setup of a SAML2 configuration is that you have to publish the metadata, by clicking a button. Some SAML2 capabable middleware solutions can publish the metadata over an URL. ADFS does support a URL to get the metadata from the Service Provider, being Weblogic12c servicing your application. This prevents that you need to hand over the xml file every time you change/update your configuration. For instance because of expired certificates. How nice would it be if Weblogic supported this?
Well, actually, you can! Sort of… Weblogic does support to service a document-folder, like the htdocs folder of Apache. To do so, you need to create a war file, with only a weblogic.xml file that couples a context-root to a certain folder. And apparently Glassfish can do so too!
When you install ORDS on Weblogic, following the steps, you generate an i.war that is actually the example for this post. You could extract that file and adapt it for this purpose. But I wanted to be able to generate it. Doing so I could reuse this for several other purposes if I would need to. Read the complete article here.
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