Calling external java applications from JBoss portal with lo

[liquide]

Hello,
i am beginner in JBoss portal technology. We are evaluating the usage of JBoss portal as a "product switch" to our normally web based java applications.

Now i have two questions:

* Is it generally possible to call java applications from a JBoss portal?

* Is it possible to hand on the logon informations from the JBoss portal to such an external called java application? The user has entered its logon information already at the logon to the JBoss portal - so this should not be necessary again for him.

Thanks a lot for responses :-)

[liquide]

Hmm, is there anyone who might be able to answer my question :)

[dleerob]

I am using JBoss Portal in a similair way. I have used IFramePortlet to pull in other external applications. Take a look at www.portletswap.com and download IFramePortlet, and use that to pull in your external web applications. I'm not sure if anyone knows of a better way? Please let us know.

As for the single sign on, im not yet sure how I am going to do that. As my other applications are developed using AppFuse (www.appfuse.org), and sit on different servers, I need to be able to pass in user name and password from the initial JBoss Portal login, to each IFrame portlet which in turn passes it on to the external application url to authenticate. Anyone know how to do this?

[liquide]

Yes, the questions of User dleerob match exactly to my open questions :)
...have anyone an answer to our questions?

[theute]

You could look at SSO solutions like JBoss SSO: http://labs.jboss.com/portal/jbosssso/

[liquide]

Thank you Thomas, that solution is promising!