Posted by: B Qiao on Fri Oct 10 11:51:40 EDT 2008 DIGG I'm developing a web portal that loads other web applications running on different J2ee application servers (JBoss and Glassfish, etc). All application servers including the one the web portal resides on have their own form based JAAS authentication enabled but they all share the same users database. The idea is as follows: 1. to have only one login page presented to users which has an iframe embedded in it for every external application and the portal. The iframe points to url that loads corresponding web application, which will be redirected to the login page of that web application. 2. a piece of javascript in the portal login page will pass user credential to individual iframes and login the user to the loaded application. I've managed to make this work, but wonder if...
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