keycloak-scim/examples/saml

Keycloak SAML + Picketlink Client Quickstarts

Introduction

These quickstarts show using Keycloak Server's SAML support with Picketlink's SAML client adapter. These quickstarts run on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 or WildFly.

We recommend using the Keycloak Appliance Distribution to test the quickstarts as it has already some things pre-set for you. There is individual README.md file specific for each quickstart in the particular subdirectory with the quickstart. Here are just some general info about the requirements for your OS etc.

System Requirements

To run these quickstarts with the provided build scripts, you need the following:

1. Java 1.6 or Java 1.7, depending if you're using JBoss EAP or WildFly to run the quickstarts. You can choose from the following:

   • OpenJDK
   • Oracle Java SE
   • Oracle JRockit

2. Maven 3.0.0 or newer, to build and deploy the examples

   • If you have not yet installed Maven, see the Maven Getting Started Guide for details.

   • If you have installed Maven, you can check the version by typing the following in a command line:

       mvn --version
     

3. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 distribution ZIP or the WildFly distribution ZIP.

   • For information on how to install and run those servers, refer to the their documentation.

Run the Quickstarts

The root folder of each individual quickstart contains a README file with specific details on how to build and run the example. In most cases you do the following:

• Start the JBoss server
• Build and deploy the quickstarts

About the Keycloak SAML Quickstarts

The Keycloak SAML Quickstarts provide a lot of examples about how to use Keycloak SAML Support to enable SSO for your applications. Before running them you need to understand how they are related with each other. Basically, Keycloak server is used as SAML Identity Provider and each individual WAR is used as SAML Service Provider. Keycloak actually uses Picketlink Federation library as base implementation of SAML support.

Using SAML Tracer Firefox Add-On to Debug the SAML SSO Flow

If you want to understand even better how IdPs and SPs communicate with each other, you may want to configure the SAML Tracer Add-On to your Mozilla Firefox. This is a nice way to debug and view SAML Messages, so you can take a look on how the IdP and SP exchange messages when establishing a SSO session.

Start the JBoss Server

Before you deploy a quickstart, in most cases you need a running JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 or WildFly server. A few of the Arquillian tests do not require a running server. This will be noted in the README for that quickstart.

The JBoss server can be started a few different ways.

• Start the JBoss Server With the web profile: This is the default configuration. It defines minimal subsystems and services.
• Start the JBoss Server with the full profile: This profile configures many of the commonly used subsystems and services.
• Start the JBoss Server with a custom configuration: Custom configuration parameters can be specified on the command line when starting the server.

The README for each quickstart will specify which configuration is required to run the example.

Start the JBoss Server with the Web Profile

To start JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 or WildFly with the Web Profile:

1. Open a command line and navigate to the root of the JBoss server directory.

2. The following shows the command line to start the JBoss server with the web profile:

    For Linux:   JBOSS_HOME/bin/standalone.sh
    For Windows: JBOSS_HOME\bin\standalone.bat
   

Start the JBoss Server with the Full Profile

To start JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 or WildFly with the Full Profile:

1. Open a command line and navigate to the root of the JBoss server directory.

2. The following shows the command line to start the JBoss server with the full profile:

    For Linux:   JBOSS_HOME/bin/standalone.sh -c standalone-full.xml
    For Windows: JBOSS_HOME\bin\standalone.bat -c standalone-full.xml
   

Start the JBoss Server with Custom Configuration Options

To start JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 or WildFly with custom configuration options:

1. Open a command line and navigate to the root of the JBoss server directory.

2. The following shows the command line to start the JBoss server. Replace the CUSTOM_OPTIONS with the custom optional parameters specified in the quickstart.

    For Linux:   JBOSS_HOME/bin/standalone.sh CUSTOM_OPTIONS
    For Windows: JBOSS_HOME\bin\standalone.bat CUSTOM_OPTIONS
   

Build and Deploy the Quickstarts

See the README file in each individual quickstart folder for specific details and information on how to run and access the example.

Build the Quickstart Archive

In some cases, you may want to build the application to test for compile errors or view the contents of the archive.

1. Open a command line and navigate to the root directory of the quickstart you want to build.

2. Use this command if you only want to build the archive, but not deploy it:

    For EAP 6:     mvn clean package
    For WildFly:   mvn -Pwildfly clean package
   

Build and Deploy the Quickstart Archive

1. Make sure you start the JBoss server as described in the README.

2. Open a command line and navigate to the root directory of the quickstart you want to run.

3. Use this command to build and deploy the archive:

    For EAP 6:     mvn clean package jboss-as:deploy
    For WildFly:   mvn -Pwildfly clean package wildfly:deploy
   

Undeploy an Archive

The command to undeploy the quickstart is simply:

    For EAP 6:     mvn jboss-as:undeploy
    For WildFly:   mvn -Pwildfly wildfly:undeploy

Keycloak Documentation

The documentation is available from the following link.