OpenEdge already supports an SSO (Single Sign-On) framework in its application server and database product clients. PAS for OpenEdge extends the OpenEdge SSO framework to include support of mobile/browser-based clients (a.k.a. HTTP Clients) for OpenEdge ABL web applications. Providing tight integration with the existing SSO framework, SSO support for HTTP Clients enhances ABL web application security, reduces the inconvenience of multiple logins, and relieves the need to write and maintain code that requires a high degree of technical security expertise.
The following sections will describe how the existing OpenEdge SSO framework extends to web application clients, how that extended functionality will be secured, and how the web application clients will use those SSO services.
