Transparent Logon installs a webserver for each environment it needs to serve. Every server runs on the same server as an instance on a separate port. Transparent Logon is installed next to JDEdwards and does not block direct usage of JDEdwards like a reverse proxy does.
The steps the transparent logon instance makes when an user wants to sign in to JDEdwards:


| JDE credential | JWT | Password Reset | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TL Authentication | OAuth | SAML | Windows | OAuth | SAML | Windows |
| Authentication | IdP with OpenID | IdP with SAML Provider | Windows domain | IdP with OpenID | IdP with SAML Provider | Windows domain |
| JDE Tools Version | 9.2.5.4 | JDENet and F98OWSEC | ||||
| JDE connection | No | enterprise server and service user which can reset passwords | ||||
| JDE Authentication | External OAuth JWT Trust | F98OWSEC Table Security | ||||
| JDE LDAP enabled | Yes | No | ||||
| JDE Long username | Yes | Yes | ||||
| JDE Long password | Not applicable | Yes | ||||
| WEB | JWT Access token | Random password | ||||
| Orch Studio | JWT Access token | Not supported | ||||
| DAS ReportNow | Not supported | Random password | ||||
| AIS | Token from TL Oauth Provider | Token from TL Oauth Provider | Token from TL Oauth Provider | |||
| AIS proxy | Not supported | Not supported | AIS proxy | |||
| Self-Service Reset | Not supported | Cross Reference Database | ||||
| SMTP Mail Server | ||||||
| User identifier | Claim with JDE username | Attribute with JDE username | windows username | Claim with JDE username | Attribute with JDE username | windows username |
| User mapping | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Load Balancer | LB Sticky Session | |||||
| TL Shared Database | LB Sticky Session | |||||
| TL Shared Database | Nothing to setup | LB Sticky Session | ||||
| TL Shared Database | LB Sticky Session | |||||
| TL Shared Database | Nothing to setup | |||||
| TLS/SSL/https | required | required | preferred | required | required | preferred |