Crowd is an application security framework that handles authentication and authorization calls for your web-applications. With Crowd you can quickly integrate web-applications into a single security architecture that supports single sign-on and centralized identity management.
The application is divided into two parts:
The first time you access the Crowd administration console, you will be walked through the initial configuration of your deployment.
The demo application highlights best practices when using the Crowd framework. The Crowd download archive contains the entire source to the demo application, which can be used as an example when integrating your web-applications.
To access the demo application, during the setup process you must select the auto configure option for the demo application.