SAP Web AS Java 

 

See the SAP Web AS Java UME documentation for details about installation and administration. This document is also available on the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com.

 

User Authentication and Single Sign-On

There are several mechanisms for user authentication available on the SAP NetWeaver platform. If you have several systems in your system landscape, the Single Sign-On (SSO) environment is a useful feature, to reduce the number of logon procedures a user usually has to perform.

The SAP Web AS Java is the underlying technology for authenticating users with SAP NetWeaver. The following table gives an overview of the available user authentication services and if the service is used directly for user authentication or for SSO.

Mechanism	User Authenti-cation	Single Sign-On	ABAP	Java
User ID and password	x	x	x	x
Secure Network Communications (SNC)	x	x	x
SAP logon tickets		x	x	x
SSL and X.509 client certificates	x	x	x	x
Pluggable Authentication Services (PAS)	x		x
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)		x		x
Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)	x	x		x

 

For more details on SSO refer to the Single Sign-On in a Complex System Landscape or refer to the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com.