Without knowing all the details of your implementation, it sounds like you could still use the DaoAuthenticationProvider. Providing it a custom AuthenticationDao that deals with retrieving UserDetails objects from your own user management system.
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> This is probably going to be a FAQ (but I didn't find anything on it
> in the Gmane archive), but I am trying to figure out how to get the
> them to use my own Authentication implementation? We already have
> objects that define our users and essentially their roles. But I
> haven't found the hook point in Acegi to tell it to use this class.
>
> I guess I could make my own implementation of an
> AuthenticationProvider. But even then, how do I know what's going to
> call it's supports() method with the class I want? Maybe I'm just not
> grasping where to actually start with my integration. I want to use as
> much of the existing Acegi code without having to implement a lot of
> my own code. Otherwise, what's the point?
>
> Do I just need to start "higher" in the chain and subclass or am I
> missing some configuration options?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
>
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