>I believe that JAAS fixes this adequately. In JAAS a particular Subject,
>for example me :-), can have an arbitrary number of Principals attached
>to it, for example "Sweden". If I log into an EJB-system which supports
>JAAS it should be able to ask Q's such as "does the current Subject have
>the principal(=role) 'Sweden'?", and then make decisions based on that.

JAAS should help, but there are some minor pitfalls, the only real Role support
in JAAS is as you point
out Principal=Role, as we had Role support in JAAS and then due to complications
it was removed. The
other pitfall is that you can have a Subject with multiple Principal, and the
problem is the modulation
of those Principals and how Subject.DoAs works.

Thanks,
Anthony Nadalin
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