ShARPE is developed as part of the collaboration between MAMS and Shibboleth. ShARPE's aim is to manage the creation and maintenance of user's attributes as defined by Attribute Release Policy (ARP) mechanism of Shibboleth.

In particular, ShARPE allows admins and users to easily manage their release attribute policy in a way that conforms to their privacy and satisfaction of users in gaining the services that they want (on service provider end) To do the crosswalk between different directory schemas mappings have to be defined. This can be achieved using the Crosswalker.

ShARPE is composed of 2 components, [SharpeCore], [WebSharpe]:

• [SharpeCore] is the core component of ShARPE. It sits on top of current Shibboleth IdP and access/manipulate configuration files as used by the IdP. Introduction of [SharpeCore] would enable any IdP to benefit Sharpe's capabilities.
• [WebSharpe] is a web interface for Sharpe to allow user and admin to interact with ShARPE. ShARPE can be fully functional without [WebSharpe], however its use as user interface to ShARPE is recommended.