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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Jonathan Gallimore
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I spent a bit more time looking at this - and added a bit more code. I
> noticed that the Jaxb tree for openejb-jar.xml has some webservice security
> attributes that we aren't using, but I think Geronimo is. I've added support
> that does simple username/password authentication using basic http
> mechanism, and an interceptor to do username/password auth using WS-Security
> headers.
>
> I've uploaded a patch to
> http://people.apache.org/~jgallimore/webservices.diff. I be grateful on
> anyone's thoughts. Its pretty basic at the moment, but I think it would be
> nice if this could go into OpenEJB - if others agree, I'd like to open a
> JIRA and do some more work on it.
>
> I've copied this to the dev@ list too in case anyone who might be interested
> missed it, hope that's ok.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jon
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Jonathan Gallimore <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jean-Louis,
>>
>> Many thanks for your detailed reply and the link to the article. I'll be
>> having a good look at this over the weekend. I had initially thought just
>> applying basic auth was all there was to it, which is probably a bit naive
>> of me!
>>
>> I think it would be worthwhile working out whether there's some samples
>> (and maybe some enhancements) we could add to OpenEJB in this regard - I'm
>> sure others would find it useful too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jean-Louis MONTEIRO <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan,
>>>
>>> Here are some inputs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan Gallimore-2 wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Obviously I think it would be great if the standalone and embedded
>>> servers
>>> > which use their own HTTP listener could accept credentials via basic
>>> > authentication, meanwhile Tomcat could do the authentication for us
>>> based
>>> > on
>>> > however its been configured (currently it looks like a new
>>> StandardContext
>>> > is created for each webservice, and there is code to setup
>>> authentication,
>>> > but WsService.authMethod was always null when I debugged it, causing no
>>> > authentication to be applied, and I couldn't see how it could be set
>>> > otherwise), and the user and role principals could be passed through
>>> from
>>> > Tomcat to the relevant EJB container.
>>> >
>>> Definitively! (nice to have ;-)).
>>> Doing basic authentication (without ws-security) seems to be possible
>>> using
>>> JAX-WS handlers.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan Gallimore-2 wrote:
>>> >
>>> > To give a bit more background on how this has come about - my colleague
>>> at
>>> > work has been working on some functionality as an EJB, and felt it would
>>> > be
>>> > nice to have it available as a webservice - and adding the @WebService
>>> > annotation to the EJB seemed to be a nice idea, rather then creating a
>>> > webservice as a separate class that just delegates through to the EJB as
>>> > you
>>> > describe -
>>> >
>>> I was probably not so clear.
>>> It seems to me, from an architecture point of view, it's better to use web
>>> services as facades. They are personal concerns you know ;-)
>>> Never mind, I had in mind an EJB Web Service (@stateless + @webservice)
>>> which delegates to other business EJB and it works fine with OpenEJB for
>>> simple cases.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan Gallimore-2 wrote:
>>> >
>>> > and we hoped the container would handle the authentication for
>>> > us. When configured correctly, JBoss (4.2.2.GA) does seem to do this
>>> for
>>> > us,
>>> > however OpenEJB doesn't at the moment - I don't actually know if this is
>>> > even supposed to work (or even whether its part of any of the JEE spec -
>>> > I'll have to read up!).
>>> >
>>> I can't help you on this topic (not read this part of the spec).
>>> If you have 10 minutes, here is an interesting article
>>> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2007/jw-02-handler.html?page=1
>>> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2007/jw-02-handler.html?page=1
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan Gallimore-2 wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I think I should probably have a look at WS-Security - I'd be very
>>> > interested in a seeing a sample using OpenEJB/JAX-WS/WS-Security if
>>> you're
>>> > putting one together.
>>> >
>>>
>>> OK, I've done some tests since yesterday morning. But, the way OpenEJB
>>> publishes EJB as web services does not allow configuring ws-security.
>>>
>>> When using CXF + WS-Security, it's quite simple: add a WSS4J InInterceptor
>>> and a WSS4J OutInterceptor giving them a set of properties. Interceptors
>>> can
>>> be configured using both a Spring application context or CXF annotations
>>> (@InInterceptors @OutInterceptor).
>>>
>>> At a JAX-WS point of view we only have handlers (soap handlers and logical
>>> handlers) so I have to spend some more time to look if we can manage
>>> WS-Security using handlers.
>>>
>>> More coming soon ;-)
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Jean-Louis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
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