Tech author Marina Sum over at Sun Developer Network continues her series of interviews ; this time in the hot seat is Daniel Raskin , senior product line manager for access and federation management at Sun. In the interview , Daniel lifts the lid on some of the cool new features coming up in Sun Federated Access Manager 8.0 (and, of course, available NOW in OpenSSO ), including Fedlets , Virtual Federation, the Federation Validator and more. Exciting stuff!

From the shameless self-promotion dept... Hot on the heels of her interview with Jamie last week , Marina 's latest subject is... me! Sadly, my suggested title of "Sun's Rising Identity Superstar" was rejected in favor of the far less exciting " OpenSSO , a Thriving Community". Oh well...

Sun Developer Network tech author Marina Sum starts a new series of interviews this week with OpenSSO 's benevolent dictator and Sun's director of engineering for access and federation management , Jamie Nelson (my boss, so I'd better be careful here!). In the interview , Jamie explains how web developers need to consider security, but, at the same time, avoid hard-coding it into their apps. Some great tips and useful links for any web developer - read the article here!