Part 3 of this multi-part article series covers OAuth 2.0 support in WebSphere DataPower Appliances. This article covers how AAA is used to support OAuth 2.0 protocol, and how to configure form-based login for resource owner identity authentication processing. The coverage of the form-based login is not tied to OAuth support, as OAuth support does not mandate form-based login as the method for resource owner identity authentication.

This series of articles introduces the IBM Worklight platform by showing how you can build mobile applications that leverage a variety of IBM software products. Part 2 continues to describe the process of developing a Worklight application, showing some best practices for building hybrid apps, and featuring Worklight’s Encrypted Offline Cache functionality.

IBM WebSphere Portal and Microsoft SharePoint are popular platforms that organizations adopt as their base platform for their portals, and organizations often want to integrate the two technologies. This kind of synthesis is needed because a number of multiple, separately administered SharePoint installations are difficult to integrate with enterprise applications and legacy systems running on WebSphere Portal.

This first in a 2-part article series de-mystifies the work required to set up a WebSphere DataPower configuration that uses a Kerberos-secured backend server. This first article describes how to create these configurations in a static fashion using the DataPower Web Graphical User Interface. Part 2 will describe how the DataPower custom stylesheet objects are used to configure a gateway to a Kerberos backend server in a more dynamic fashion.