Use to capture the general login information required to authenticate to the external application.
External Applications and Credential Provisioning in Oracle WebCenter Portal provide a means of accessing content from applications that require user authentication. External applications can be used with WebCenter Portal tools and portlet producers. For instance, when an Oracle PDK portlet producer's implementation depends on an application that handles its own authentication, you can associate that producer with an external application definition. At design time, this is a simple matter of registering the external application, then selecting the external application from a list when you register or edit an Oracle PDK portlet producer. At run time, the producer uses the information associated with the external application to authenticate the user to the application, and consequently consume its portlets.
Element | Description |
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Login Details |
Enter the external application login details.
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Authentication Details |
Enter the external application authentication details.
Authentication Method Use the menu to select the form submission method. The method that you select determines how message data is sent by the browser. You find this value by viewing the HTML source for the external application's login form, for example, You can select any one of the following methods:
If the exposure of user names and passwords is a concern, consider using a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to manage the security of message transmission. Note that the fields in the Login Details section are optional because the external application need not be Web enabled. However, if the authentication method is defined as POST or GET and a login URL is specified, then it is mandatory to specify the user name and password name fields. |
Related Topics
"Managing External Applications" in Administering Oracle WebCenter Portal