I have been trying to find ways to enable single sign-on between WebCenter Spaces and custom portals. Without using OAM or OID.
I tried using SAML to simulate SSO. This hit a road-block because I couldn’t find a way to make ADFAuthentication work with SAML. The only configuration that allowed auto-login to work left the user with a blank screen (as it involved using /adfAuthentication as the destination target).
The only other way forward is to use a 3rd party SSO platform (JOSSO) for e.g. and see if WebCenter can be configured to work with it. I don’t have very high hopes for this. Oracle’s documentation limits itself to OID/OAM as the SSO provider and does not even mention the possibility of using a 3rd party SSO solution.
Have you had any successes (or failures) in this area? I would love to hear of how your attempts went.
May 20th, 2011 at 12:21 am
Did you try using oracle.webcenter.spaces.osso=true in the Java startup values?
You will also need to look at the authentication providers and add one for JOSSO in WebLogic.
May 20th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Good day Steve,
Thanks for your tips.
To be honest, I haven’t yet gotten around to installing/configuring JOSSO. I am still reading up JOSSO’s documentation to see how it integrates with WLS. I guess the JVM startup value will be useful once I get JOSSO setup for WLS.
Yes, the Authenticator/IdentityAsserter is one area that is a bit hazy to me at the moment. I haven’t found if JOSSO supplies an authenticator that may be used or if I will have to build my own.