Creating an APEX custom authentication procedure

APEX provides default authentication schemes. If these do not suit your needs, or are not flexible enough, then you can build your own.

Getting ready

In order to create an APEX custom authentication, you will need to create some tables. In order to do this, you will require a schema that is registered with APEX. For this example, we are integrating into different LDAP servers depending on the domain for the user. Open SQL Developer and log in as the owner of the schema where the tables will be created.

How to do it...

Using a single authentication provider (LDAP, Microsoft Active Directory) across the entire solution reduces the amount of work and maintenance. For this, the user interface created in ...

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