Installing Infra 10.1.4.0.1 -- not sure what to do with warning received

Question

I understand that in order to use SSO with Forms and Reports Standalone I need to install the Infra. Therefore, I spent the weekiend readiing the appropriate manuals for OID Concepts and Deployment Planning Guide, SSO Admin Guide, and manuals these 2 doc referenced.
I am trying to installing Infra10g on top of Forms and Reports standalone in my test environment on my laptop before I install on our servers.
My test environment is Windows XP. I am in the process of installing the Oracle Application Server Infrastructure 10g 10.1.4.0.1.
Select a Product to Install: Oracle Application Server Infrastructure 10g
Select Installation Type/Oracle Application Server Infrastructure 10g 10.1.4.0: Identity Management and Metadata Repository
Now I have the following Warrning:
The installation type you have chosen is not certified for production use on Windows XP.  The following installation type is certified on this platform:
-- Oracle Identity Federation
You can click OK to continue with this unsupported installation, or go back to the "Selecgt a Product to Install" screen and change your selection.
I serarch on Oracle Identity Federation and didn't come up with much to determine what to do.
I don't need this to be certified, as I only want to play with it on my laptop to get an understanding of SSO. I am not sure that Identity Federation with give me the SSO framework that I need.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated,
Thank you in advance,
Mika
Edited by: Mika2 on Mar 24, 2009 11:19 AM

Answer 1

Because, you wanted to test SSO with Forms, you will be fine without the IDentity Federation on your test machine.
What Id Fed does is somewhat like the following:
"Although single sign-on (SSO) enjoys wide adoption for its ability to cut down the need for redundant logins, mere SSO is insufficient for companies which must operate in a federated environment - that is, an environment where services need to be shared with business partners while protecting those same services from unauthorized access.
A federated environment enables business partners to achieve integration in the identity management realm, by providing a mechanism for companies to share identity information across their respective security domains."
See this link for [Oracle Id Federation|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28196_01/idmanage.1014/b25355/intro.htm#sthref10] details.
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