The Higgins Identity Attribute Service (IdAS) APIs are a set of interfaces which are implemented by Higgins service providers and consumed by Higgins consumers.

Overview

• {@link org.eclipse.higgins.idas.api.IContext}

  • Implementation of a specific type of Context.

  • A user must "open" a context, which involves authenticating to the data source, before accessing its data.

  • Includes methods to search for Node using context-specific attributes.

• {@link org.eclipse.higgins.idas.api.INode}

  • Implementation of a specific type of Node.

IdAS Architecture

See the Wiki

IdAS Policy