Recently I’ve been spending a fair amount of my work time working on WebISO (Web Initial Sign-on) and portal integration, specifically Pubcookie, which we’ve adopted as part of the NMI R3 recommendations, and uPortal [#4 in InfoWorld’s Top 100 IT Projects of 2003] integration (my preferred portal framework).
Unfortunately, previous Pubcookie integration efforts have stalled out, buton the bright side, uPortal’s security framework looks pretty adaptable…
- uPortal Authentication Options: Design and Applicability [PPT]
- uPortal Security and CAS [PPT]
- Internet2/WebISO & Pubcookie: Efforts in Web Authentication [PPT]
- University of Bristol IS: Blackboard – The Options – CalPoly has developed a Blackboard Access Channel w/ full authentication; may be adaptable to Pubcookie (or via the CAS module)
- Bristol also has a great resource list of Portals and Portal Frameworks
Here’s a great quote:
Middleware is the intersection of what the Network Engineers and the Application Programmers don’t want to do.