Thanks Sagara. You have answered all there was to answer, even more than I was hoping.
I am a bit at the feasability stage. My concern was to find out if Acegi was meant to be used within a webapp only. I glad to know it isn't. I have also found in the Acegi documentation that Acegi "will execute in a Java 1.3 environment" [1]. Another question I have: has anyone published a complete Axis to Acegi bridge (that is, not limited to username tokens)? I'm referring the bridge concept in this article [2]. I found it great btw. [1] http://www.acegisecurity.org/guide/springsecurity.html#runtime-environment [2] http://onjava.com/onjava/2006/09/06/separation-of-concerns-in-web-services.html 2009/12/5 Sagara Gunathunga <sagara.gunathu...@gmail.com> > Yes, there is no in-build integration between Axis2 and Acegi but it > doesn't imply you can't use Acegi with Axis2 or Rampart. If this > question related to "sufficient functionality" then the answer is > "yes". > > In case of Axis2, it's again simple as accessing to Spring > ApplicationContext , once you have access to the ApplicationContext > you can use Acegi features such as > AccessDecisionManager , AuthenticationManager etc. In most of the > cases this is enough to achieve Acegi Authentication/Authorization. > May be you will find some issues to achieve advanced features of Acegi > , if so reporting such instances is important to find out possible > solution too. > > But integrating Rampart with Acegi is a bit of a challenging task > because there is no API method available to access ApplicationContext > within the Rampart CallbackHandler . But it is possible to find a > work-around for this depending on your requirements. As a example this > one [1] worked with me for two of my past applications. > > [1] - > http://ssagara.blogspot.com/2009/05/acegi-spring-security-and-rampart.html > > Thanks, > > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Andreas Veithen > <andreas.veit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As far as I know, there is no out-of-the-box integration between Axis2 > > (and Rampart) and Acegi. > > > > Andreas > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 17:26, Philippe A. <futhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello! > >> > >> I am currently reading on Acegi as we'd like to use it for our project. > Does > >> the axis2 standalone server have sufficient functionality to support > Acegi? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > > > > > > -- > Sagara Gunathunga > > Blog - http://ssagara.blogspot.com > Web - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/<http://people.apache.org/%7Esagara/> >
