Authentication APIs (Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Developer's Guide)

Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Developer's Guide

Authentication APIs

The Portal Server uses the Access Manager APIs for authentication, single sign-on, session, profile, and logging.

In general, most development work for a portal developer in the Access Manager area will be to customize the authentication interfaces. The following table explains the authentication development tasks and where to go for the information.

Table 1–1 Authentication Development Tasks


If you want to	Go to
Change the look and feel of the authentication screen	Sun Java System Access Manager 7 2005Q4 Developer’s Guide
Enable or disable authentication modules	Sun Java System Access Manager 7 2005Q4 Developer’s Guide
Add a custom authentication module	Sun Java System Access Manager 7 2005Q4 Developer’s Guide. By default, the Access Manager supplies authentication modules for the following types of logins: Anonymous, Certificate, LDAP, Membership, RADIUS, SafeWord, SecureID, and UNIX.