Providing Access to Existing Web Applications with Portlets
You can enable users to access existing web applications
through the portal. For example, users may need to access an employee
benefits system. If they access the benefits system through the portal,
they do not have to enter their login credentials separately for that
application, and can continue to have the convenience of the portal
context, personalization, and navigation.
- (Recommended) Create a lockbox in the portal for the existing
application, and have users supply their login credentials for that
lockbox.
- Create a remote server in the portal for the existing application.
- Create a remote portlet web service in the portal to associate
with a portlet you will create for the existing application.
If you created a lockbox, use it to supply the user credentials
for authenticating to this application.
- Create a portlet based on the web service you created.
- Add the portlet to My Pages or communities.
