Web Commerce Security Design and Development

OpenSAF

OpenSAF²⁵ is an open source community with projects focused on high availability (HA) middleware. The goal of OpenSAF projects is to develop HA middleware that is consistent with the Service Availability Forum (SAF: described later in this appendix) specifications. OpenSAF is freely available to anyone under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (LGPL v2.1)²⁶ and anyone may contribute to the code base.

The OpenSAF Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established by leading communications and computing companies to facilitate the work of the OpenSAF project and to accelerate the adoption of OpenSAF in commercial products. The mission of OpenSAF is to:

• Expand the open source implementation of high availability middleware.
• Align with SA Forum specifications.
• Enhance OpenSAF for easier manageability and usability.
• Publicize and accelerate the adoption of OpenSAF.
• Focus initially on the communications market and extend to other industries.
• Establish OpenSAF as a de facto standard for application developers and ISVs.

There are two entities related to OpenSAF: the OpenSAF community and the OpenSAF Foundation.

The guiding principle of the OpenSAF community is that the code be freely available and open to all. The development community drives the evolution and roadmap of OpenSAF. The OpenSAF project is led by the Technical Leadership Council (TLC) whose functions are to facilitate the architectural discussions in the community, plan upcoming releases based ...