The Oracle Commerce Business Control Center and the Oracle Commerce Workbench are both used for managing content and its presentation on sites built with the integration of the Oracle Commerce Platform and Oracle Commerce Guided Search. To simplify working in both environments, the Guided Search integration includes the Commerce Single Sign-On (SSO) feature. Commerce Single Sign-On ensures that when a user logs into either the Business Control Center or the Workbench, that user is automatically also logged into the other environment. Logging out of one environment automatically logs the user out of the other one as well.
Commerce SSO consists of three pieces:
An Oracle Commerce Platform SSO server instance that is responsible for managing the SSO sessions shared by the Business Control Center and the Workbench.
An Oracle Commerce Platform plug-in that is responsible for communication between the Business Control Center and the SSO server.
A Oracle Commerce Guided Search plug-in that is responsible for communication between the Workbench and the SSO server.
The Guided Search plug-in is discussed in the Oracle Commerce Guided Search Administrator’s Guide. This chapter discusses the SSO server and the Oracle Commerce Platform plug-in, and includes the following sections:
