The Language Bank of

CSC
–

Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus Oy

CSC
–

IT Center for Science Ltd.

The Language Bank of
Finland

User Authentication and
Authorization Service


https://aai.csc.fi/


CSC at a
glance
:

An
important

national and international
actor

CSC
-

IT
Center

for Science:

•
Offers high
-
level expert
services for the use of
software, databases and
methods

•
Participates actively in
European high
performance computing
development projects

CSC at a
glance
:
Customers

•
3000 researchers use
CSC’s computing capacity

•
Finnish University and
Research Network (
Funet
)

•
Funet

connects about 80
organizations to the global
research network
infrastructure

–
Universities and
polytechnics

–
35 industrial clients and
research institutions

–
Total of 350 000 end users

Architecture

AAI
-

Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure

Port 443

Apache HTTPD

Shibboleth SAML2 module

Apache Tomcat (
Servlet

Container)

Port 8009

Liferay

Portal (
Portlet

Container
)
Vaadin

Portlet 1

Portlet n

Web
Browser

Markings:

Request

Response

Vaadin

•
A large
collection of
user interface
components
for Rich Internet Applications
(RIA)

•
Easy and rapid pure
Java
development

•
Read more: http
://vaadin.com/


Liferay

portal version 6

•
Portlets

are pluggable user interface
software components

•
SOA
-

Service Oriented Architecture

•
Read more: http://www.liferay.com/


Identity

Manager

(
IdM
)

•
Sun/Oracle
user administration solution

•
Automates the authentication and
authorization workflows

•
Read

more
:
http://developers.sun.com/identity/



AAI
workflow

1.
Authentication

via the
applicant’s

home
organization

2.
Acceptance

of the
relevant

Terms

and
Conditions


3.
Authorization

to
access

the
Language

Bank of Finland

Owner
-
controlled access to
the Language Bank of Finland


User Authentication and
Authorization Service


•
Try

out the demo:
https://aai.csc.fi/



More

information

about

the
Language

Bank of Finland at http://www.csc.fi