Custom realm/authentication

[Nic Holbrook <mo...@xmission.com>]

I currently have a setup where I would really like to use the container 
authentication with tomcat, however, the only means of access to my 
users is through a proxy bean.  The web server sits outside of our 
corporate firewall, and I don't allow direct access to databases, etc. 
 We manage users/roles internally, and pass them as value objects 
through ejb's.  I would like to find out what I need to do in order to 
write my own custom realm/authentication piece.  I will just make calls 
through my proxy bean.  

It looks like I need to write my own realm class which extends the 
BaseRealm, but do I also need to create a authentication bean, or should 
I just be able to use the standard FormAuthentication bean?  If somebody 
in here has some more insight into this, I would appreciate it.  If it 
turns out that I can write a good generic module for this I will gladly 
contribute.

Thanks

Nic Holbrook  


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