Apply Single-Sign-On to Your Application - Conclusion

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Conclusion
The previous examples only show the code implementations on the Microsoft .NET Platform. You can implement the same ideas with J2EE. As long as you build LDAP Capability into your applications, it will work.

I hope you are able to see how you can integrate user identity management of an organizational directory into your application and map them onto your own databases. The users will still exist in the database but the management of their identities should be centralized within an LDAP Directory, implementing a company’s policies and securities.

There are a couple of ways that True-Blue Single-Sign-On can be applied across multiple domains. However, these implement rather new and expensive technologies such as physical authentication tokens which act as your fingerprints. I will leave that topic for later.

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