uPortal 4 - Part 2 of 6 - CAS Authentication
Also, see a recording from the Jasig - Sakai 2012 Conference on 'uPortal Integration Strategies in Action' at: https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JCON/2...
What is uPortal?
uPortal is the leading open source enterprise portal framework built by and for the higher education community. uPortal continues to evolve through contributions from its global community and is supported by resources, grants, donations, and memberships fees from academic institutions, commercial affiliates, and non-profit foundations. uPortal is built on open standards-based technologies such as Java and XML, and enables easy, standards-based integration with authentication and security infrastructures, single sign-on secure access, campus applications, web-based content, and end user customization. It is one of the most widely deployed open source enterprise portal frameworks, having been adopted by hundreds of institutions and the eResearch community, world wide.
What is CAS?
CAS is an authentication system originally created by Yale University to provide a trusted way for an application to authenticate a user. CAS became a Jasig project in December 2004. CAS provides enterprise single sign on service and is an open and well-documented protocol, an open-source Java server component, a library of clients for Java, .Net, PHP, Perl, Apache, uPortal, and others, integrates with uPortal, BlueSocket, TikiWiki, Mule, Liferay, Moodle and others, offers community documentation and implementation support, and includes an extensive community of adopters.