Approach for customizing IBM WebSphere Portal login-logout mechanism

WebSphere Portal server comes with its own default login/logout procedure but sometimes it's required to extend this default behavior to meet our own requirements. For example, it could be necessary that a user needs to be registered and De-registered at a local security system upon login and logout.

The following articles describes you how the portal's login procedure works, how it can be configured, and what programming interfaces can be used to extend it.

• Understanding WebSphere Portal login procedure.
• Extending the WebSphere Portal login/logout procedure.
• Customizing the post login/logout redirect targets.
• Changing the login and logout pages.
• How to change the default login class.