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Can the Oracle Portal handle single sign-on to legacy applications?

April 26, 2017applications legacy Oracle portal sign-on

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Can the Oracle Portal handle single sign-on to legacy applications?

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The Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On environment supports applications which delegate their credential verification (partner applications) as well as those which retain their own authentication model (external applications). Legacy applications may integrate as partner applications by use of mod_osso (an Oracle Application Server HTTP Server mod) or by use of the Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On SDK. However, if this is not possible, the external application model allows for the integration of applications with their own credential checks by storing the users individual username/password (in an encrypted password vault) and performing an automated login on behalf of the portal user when the given application is executed. If the legacy application is not Web based, such as client/server, it is still possible to integrate the application into a single sign-on experience through extensions to the Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On environment. These include the use o