Enabling anonymous sign-in

You can allow users to connect anonymously to the Enterprise console, that is, without having to sign in through the Enterprise console sign-in page.

When you enable anonymous sign-in, you use the following URL to access the Enterprise console without signing in: http://localhost:<PORT>/teamserver/anonymous/faces/home.jsp.

You enable anonymous sign-in by adding mappings for anonymous in the WEB-INF/web.xml descriptor, such as extensionsFilter, accessFilter, and Faces Servlet, Controller. These mappings already exist in the default web.xml, so all you do is uncomment them as indicated in the file, and then repackage the EAR.

You can then customize the application to have anonymous users connect to a read-only Enterprise console where, for example, the Edit and Delete buttons are hidden and the controller forbids write access.