What is CAS authentication?

Question

What is CAS authentication?

Can anybody provide some tutorial or example on CAS authentication implemented in Java?

Actually i want an example where i can use filters and a specific servlet which will handle CAS authentication.

Answer 1

CAS (Central Authentication Service) came out of the CS dept at Yale now a JA-SIG project

There is a nicely doc'd example on their wiki which shows the filters in use at

https://wiki.jasig.org/display/CASC/Using+CAS+with+Java