http://nzpcmad.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/saml-saml-stack.html You have an application – .NET, JAVA whatever. You want this to be a SP and need to connect to an IDP – ADFS, OpenAM, simpleSAMLPHP - Look at Announcing the WIF Extension for SAML 2.0 Protoco…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_2.0#Web_Browser_SSO_Profile In SAML 2.0, as in SAML 1.1, the primary use case is still Web Browser SSO, but the scope of SAML 2.0 is broader than previous versions of SAML, as suggested in the following exhaustive li…