Using CAS without modify existing applications?

[Scott Battaglia]

It all depends on how the vendor has set up the application.  Some leverage
J2EE standard methods or expose plug-in points for you to swap
authentication methods (we've successfully CASified applications such as
Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo even though they are properiety applications).

-Scott

On 9/10/07, hezjing <hezjing at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So in my current environment, I will have to rely on the software
> vendors to customize those applications who own the source codes.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 9/11/07, Scott Battaglia <scott.battaglia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For the most part, you will need to modify applications to utilize
> CAS.  The
> > only exception to this may be if you are protecting them with a security
> > abstraction framework (such as Acegi) which would just require
> > reconfiguration or if you are protecting your pages with an Apache
> module
> > (which may then require just changing Apache modules).
> >
> > -Scott
> >
> >
> > On 9/10/07, hezjing <hezjing at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > After a very brief look at CAS, am I correct to say we cannot avoid to
> > > customize the existing applications to run Single Sign On using CAS?
> > >
> > > For example, there are currently few legacy web applications running
> > > in my environment, each application has their own login page and
> > > method. I have to modify all the login module of all these
> > > applications to have the Single Sign On feature, correct?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Hez
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