Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook

Enabling Trust Between Domains

Sometimes a remote domain needs to interact with a local domain. You enable principals in one WebLogic domain to make calls in another domain by setting up trust between (or among) WebLogic domains. Previously, you could enable trust through something known as global trust, a feature that's still available in WebLogic Server 11g. When you set up global trust between two domains, you set up the same domain credential for two domains. Once you do this, principals from one domain are accepted as principals in the other domain. Global trust can lead to several problems, including authorization problems. In addition, logins to other domains aren't validated. Global trust is transitive, so if you establish global trust ...