OpenAM is an open-source access management, entitlements and federation server platform. Now it is supported by Open Identity Platform Community.
OpenAM (Open Access Management) originated as OpenSSO, (Open Single Sign-On) an access management system created by Sun Microsystems and now owned by Oracle Corporation. OpenAM is a fork which was initiated following Oracle's purchase of Sun.
History.
Announced by Sun Microsystems in July 2005, OpenSSO was based on Sun Java System Access Manager, and was the core of Sun's commercial access management and federation product, OpenSSO Enterprise (formerly Sun Access Manager and Sun Federation Manager).
In July 2008, Sun announced paid support for regular "Express" builds of OpenSSO. Sun's stated intent was that express builds would be released approximately every three months, allowing customers early access to new features.
In September 2008, Sun announced OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0, the first commercial product derived from the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 was released in November 2008.
OpenSSO Enterprise won the "Security" category of the Developer.com Product of the Year 2009 awards.
In May 2009, shortly after Oracle's acquisition of Sun was announced, OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Update 1 was released.
Oracle completed their acquisition of Sun Microsystems in February 2010, and shortly thereafter removed OpenSSO downloads from their website in an unannounced policy change. OpenSSO was forked as OpenAM, developed and supported by ForgeRock.
ForgeRock announced in February 2010 that they would continue to develop and support OpenSSO from Sun now that Oracle had chosen to discontinue development on the project. ForgeRock renamed the product to OpenAM as Oracle retained the rights to the name OpenSSO. ForgeRock also announced that they would continue delivering on the original Sun Microsystems roadmap. It was sponsored by ForgeRock until 2016. 
In November 2016, without any official statement, ForgeRock closed OpenAM source code, renamed OpenAM to ForgeRock Access Management and began distributing source code under a paid, commercial license.
Several free and open-source forks of OpenAM now exist under the Common Development and Distribution License:
Features.
OpenAM supports the following features:
References.
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