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> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 8:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: How to get a container to know what Principaliscalling it?
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> getPrincipal() will do that. Not logged on, prinicpal == null.
>
> You can also render the page based on the roles. Both principal and
> roles are exposed to the application so you can customize the user
> interface based on them.
Yeah, but maybe he doesn't want the application server to show a login-page
only at request from the user. But when the user is authenticated the page
looks different. This scenario is pretty common.
> arkin
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> >
> > You could probably use the "error-page"-directive to specify a
> handler that
> > handles the "Not Authenticated"-error-message. Or something like that.
> > Anybody done this?
> >
> > > I've gotten private emails that say (a) JAAS will be perfect for
> > > user-form-based authentication, and (b) JAAS will not at all be
> > > applicable for user-form-based authentication. From this I conclude
> > > that JAAS is not yet understood by the user community, let
> alone by the
> > > folks writing the specifications. Consequently I'm ignoring
> it for now
> > > until this whole spec-to-spec communication issue is resolved (with my
> > > luck long after my deadline...sigh...this industry...).
> >
> > Yeah, your probably right. JAAS is at most a future-thingie.
> >
> > I think the spec-to-spec communication issue is somewhat
> resolved at Sun. At
> > least the guys doing the enterprise-specs is talking to each other now.
> > (I've seen some stuff in specs like JMX that would need to be better
> > integrated with J2EE (and/or JINI), and, yeah, then we got the
> JINI-guys. I
> > wonder if the J2EE and the JINI-guys ever met... :)
> >
> > > > I've gotten what you're talking about to work on WebLogic
> 4.5. Of course
> > > > this is WebLogic-specific.
> > >
> > > Good; could you be kind enough to send me a quick sample code snippet?
> > > I'd be eternally grateful.
> >
> > Yeah, I'll send it to you privately so I don't get beat up for including
> > files in high-volume mailing-list. If anybody else wants this
> stuff, just
> > contact me.
> >
> >
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