Well, I couldn't be more thrilled today...after rebuilding my machine on Friday (sun shining outside, 80 degrees) and following Chris Haddad's flawless instructions to set up my machine with the latest JDK, Ant, Tomcat, and Axis yesterday (sun shining outside, 80 degrees)...we were ready to start testing Ben's .NET SAML implementation. Setup was time consuming, yet surprisingly painless... a far cry from the hell I went through several years ago when Axis was in its infancy ...back then it took me 3 days to get HelloDuke() to run properly...mind you that could have been related to my J2EE container, ATG Dynamo.

Yesterday Anant and I both set up our machines to run Axis demos and between phone calls and IM Chris and I tested his remote Axis endpoint with Ben's SAML token issuer. We discovered a few things related to how Axis handles SOAP messages, for example you have to manually indicate understanding for *mustUnderstand* headers like wsse:Security (a good one to understand wouldn't you say?).

Today we continue (sun shining...80 degrees...sigh)...