Federated SSO with JBoss Portal

[dennismarcum]

I can't find any documentation on how to federated a portal...the only thing that i've found is that it's suppose to be seamless...just what does that mean? Do i need jboss-federation-server-exploded.ear and jboss-sso.sar? If not, then how do i configure the partners? The portal documentation shows how to use tomcat, cas and josso but nothing on federated. I figure i have to at least set the valves in the context.xml in the portal-server.war/web-inf but what else? any help is appreciated.
Mahalo,
Dennis

[salaboy21]

yes you are right .. you need both jboss-federation-server-exploded.ear and jboss-sso.sar in each partner of the federation..
Let me know how many domains and applications do you have....

[soshah]

to be precise,

you need jboss-federation server installed *only once per web domain* which could consist of multiple partners.

you need jboss-sso.sar (client plugin part) deployed with every partner that wants to join the federation regardless of domain

Example: say two domains abc.com, and xyz.com, you need to deploy jboss-federation-server only once for each one

If you have a single domain and multiple sites on that domain, you again need to deploy jboss-federation-server only once for this domain and not for each partner in the domain

Thanks

[dennismarcum]

thanks for the replies.

i had dropped the ear and sar into the portal deploy directory but did not realize that the portal had its own login-config.xml which is why i couldnt get it to work!

does the portal provide any federated LoginModules and LoginProviders?

Mahalo,
Dennis

[soshah]

Official Support as part of Portal codebase is on the roadmap.

For now you can use the Portal Integration that is part of the jboss-sso codebase located here:

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jboss-sso/dev/trunk/components/portal_integration/

Note this links points to the trunk codebase

Thanks