Thank you both for your suggestions. Creating my own model is along the lines of what I was thinking, but I know in advance that this is going to really stretch my abilities.
Another possibility that has occurred to me since my original post is that I could remove the authentication to Apache (using Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Remote). If the authentication is at that level, I know I can get it to protect both resources and provide a seamless experience to the user. Somehow, though, creating my own model seems like the more appealing option.... -Tim On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Ashley Pond V <a...@sedition.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Devin Austin <devin.aus...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Tim Anderson <tja...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I have a handful of java servlets that I would like to 'front-end' with > my > >> Catalyst application, essentially using Catalyst to provide > >> authentication/authorization before passing along the browser requests > to > >> the servlet. > > >> Does anyone have experience with doing something like this? I'd > appreciate > >> any insight or direction. > > > > This would be fairly do-able if you used REST for inter-app > > communication. Or something like Message::Passing, which allows you > > to send a "message" to a queue, which could be subscribed to from both > > ends, thus allowing the apps to talk to each other. > > > > If the Catalyst app is acting as a proxy to the servlets, I would > > think you could do a pretty regular > > authentication/authorization/session set up with it and just pass > > along whatever other info you need to the servlets via the > > aforementioned means. > > Another approach worth considering is to wrap the servlets up in a > model. This often takes a bit longer and more thinking in the set-up > phase but will give you code that is easier to reuse in other places. > I've done this kind of problem both ways and either is fine but I'd > lean to the model. You would end up with something you could run with > > Catalyst/Flea/Mojolicious/in-line-plack-with-auth-middleware/command-line/whatever. > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ >
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