Using Non-Intrusive, Policy Agent-Based Approaches to Web Resources

The following are examples of capabilities that can be leveraged by using the Policy Agents to integrate OpenSSO Enterprise with other applications:

• Pure J2EE applications

  Pure J2EE applications are deployed as WARs installed on J2EE compliant application servers. The resources to be protected include servlets, JavaServer Pages and Enterprise JavaBeans.

• Apache or Sun Web Server-based web applications

  These applications can be HTML pages, multimedia content, and CGIs such as PHP, Perl, JSP, and servlets hosted on the web server.

• .Net /IIS server-based web applications

  These include .Net/ASP or ASPX applications such as Visual Basic and C#, HTML pages and content accessible via the HTTP protocol.

• Enterprise applications

  These include SAP, Siebel, Domino, PeopleSoft, and Portal middleware.

• Proxied applications

  This use case can include all web applications deployed with a reverse proxy server in front of it. No policy agents or added software are required be deployed on the application and its container. A proxy is installed separately from the application, and the policy agent installation also stays separate. Multiple applications can be proxied by the same proxy server, enabling a single agent to protect them all.