Preparation of the external application

Most external applications have a web-based console that you can open from a URL in a web browser. The launch-in-context feature supports the web application (servlet or JSP), portal, and Java™ Web Start console types.

To perform a navigation, the external application console must support the land-in-context capability that accepts data that is passed to it in a URL. The external console uses the URL to open a window with the data that was passed in the URL.

If the external application does not have a land-in-context capability, the launch-in-context feature can open a standard start page within the console, without the contextual data. If the application supports single sign-on authentication, application users are authenticated and directed to the external console. If single-sign on authentication is not implemented, the external console opens a login panel to authenticate the application user.