Hi Taher, all, Sorry for the late reply. I have created a JIRA issue for further discussion and also uploaded a proof-of-concept. Please see https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/OFBIZ/issues/OFBIZ-10047
Regards, James Yong On 2017-11-07 03:42, Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps sharing exactly how you'd like to implement this would help. > > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 7:12 PM, James Yong <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to revisit this issue. Specifically on whether implementing > > Tomcat SSO to avoid using externalLoginKey is a sound approach. Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > James Yong > > > > On 2017-05-05 18:02, Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been contemplating this for a while, but it is not an easy task. > >> Essentially, we need to fully refactor the Catalina Container and do a lot > >> of cleanup to reverse the way OFBiz is deployed to be a single web > >> application, not multiple web applications mapped to a single servlet > >> container as is the architecture at the moment. > >> > >> For this to happen, we need to do many things: > >> 1- Complete the refactoring of all containers to get the new signature of > >> OfbizCommand argument list > >> 2- Redesign the container so that everything is loaded once as a single > >> webapp through one master servlet. This would have the advantage of being > >> able to deploy OFBiz as a single WAR archive to be deployed in any servlet > >> container > >> 3- Redesign all components (if needed) to comply with this new architecture > >> > >> This is one of the things I've been dabbling with lately, but it's bigger > >> than I expected. The code in the catalina container is very spaghetti like > >> at the moment. > >> > >> So, I would say it's a good idea, but needs lots of cleanup / refactoring > >> work first if you want to have a good chance of succeeding in > >> implementation. Without a proper cleanup you might get a bit overwhelmed in > >> trying to navigate the code maze :) So good luck. > >> > >> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 12:12 PM, James Yong <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > I would like to propose using the Single Sign On mechanism in Tomcat. > >> > Once implemented, there is no necessity for the externalLoginKey, > >> > or to indicate "intra-app" to target-type attribute. > >> > > >> > Any issue before i start working on a POC? > >> > > >> > Regards, > >> > James Yong > >> > > >> >
