Apache Jakarta JETSPEED and ApEx (Authentication)

Hi everybody!
I would like to integrate ApEx into the Apache Jakarta Java Framework Jetspeed. Therefore I would like to use the usermanagement and and session handling of this framework (authentication in Jespeed is also used for ApEx - no new login necessary).
Does anyone have an idea, how this can be setup in ApEx/Jetspeed? Or does anyone have a ready solution for this question?
Thanks in advance and best regards,
Christian

ApEx is not JSR168 compliant - but that doesn't mean to someone couldn't come up with a way to plug some ApEx content into a JSR168 portlet. When you're doing this kind of thing there are lots of considerations.
Like:
what is the content?
who needs to be able to see it?
who needs to update it, if anyone?
what are the security implications?
One very simplistic approach that could be used to get ApEx content into the Jetspeed portal is to use a standard HTML portlet with an iframe embedded in it that points over to the ApEx content. Obviously, this doesn't include any kind of authentication to ApEx.
You'd probably have to look into some of the SSO stuff that's buit into ApEx.
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