Single Sign on with web service

[lingesh sagara]

Hi all,

There is a requirement of single sign on application can i do this with web services??? If so how can i do ?? otherwise is there any way for doing this???

Thanking you in advance

[Ulf Dittmer]

Web services generally play no role in setting up SSO. See the http://faq.javaranch.com/java/SecurityFaq for links to a couple of Java SSO implementation in the "Web applications and HTTP" section.

What kind of applications are these - Web apps? Desktop apps? Something else?
[ October 22, 2008: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

[lingesh sagara]

Thanks sir,
i want to develop single sign on we application by which i can navigate to other four other applications.
Thanking you

[Amit G Piplani]

well SAML can help you to provide framework for providing SSO w.r.t web services.