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Chapter 1. Main Concepts

PicketLink IDM aims to provide a common identity model for various JBoss projects. As every project has it's own specific needs it's hard to design a common API and identity model that will fit all of them. Therefore PicketLink IDM architecture consists of two main parts:

PicketLink IDM architecture

Too much abstraction in the API layer would confuse people using the framework. One of the goals is to make the design easily extendible. Framework adopters should be able to remove the API layer and reuse core SPI implementation if needed.