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CAS provides an example user interface that's designed to run in any container that supports the Servlet 2.4 specification. A good container is the Tomcat 5.x series, though any Servlet 2.4 servlet container will work. CAS will run on earlier versions of Tomcat e.g. 4.x if the older style JSTL tags are used. It would be easier to use the newer Tomcat version.
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The CAS authentication and service registry is a secure way to authenticate users and provide web application or web service access. Any authentication Authentication credentials are managed by the CAS server and the business your application servers never touch this information. Access User access to the business your application involves is quite a few stepsinvolved. This A multi-gate approach is very secure and logical request approach adds a layer of security and truly logical mechanism where authentication is not handled by isolated from the application itself.
Access to a business your application begins when the user calls for a CAS login including the application URL or service needed. This looks very much like this.
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