March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
808 pages
17h 10m
English
book
IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
by Rufus Credle, Faheem Altaf, Serena Chan, Fernanda Gomes, Sunil Hiranniah, Pralhad Khatri, Shun Zhong Li, Vikrant Mastoli
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Chapter 2. Portal technology 29
repository (supporting the same set of databases as WebSphere Portal). It is
also possible to connect custom repositories by implementing a custom profile
repository adapter, for example, in service projects.
2.4.5 Authentication
J2EE security
The authentication function in WebSphere Portal 5.x uses the J2EE security calls
to authenticate users instead of the SSO Authenticator calls which had been
used in WebSphere Portal 4.x.
Deprecating old SSO functionality
In WebSphere Portal 5.x, the old JAAS-based SSO functionality allowing portlets
to take the user ID and password from the JAAS Subject for the special case that
no authentication proxy is used is not supported anymore. Instead, portlets have
to use the Credenti ...