I respect your position and can certainly see advantages (pros).  I was simply 
thinking out loud... 

  - Andy


On Tuesday 08 March 2005 10:35 am, Sylvain Wallez wrote:
>
> Have a look at the LoginModule docs [1]. Does it look so complicated?
>
> Furthermore, using this standard interface potentially allows your
> specific authentication scheme to become part of a larger picture in a
> JAAS-enabled environment. You've written a LoginModule adapter for your
> stuff to be able to use Jackrabbit? Now you can use it everywhere.
> Either in the standard java security file, but also as a configuration
> of other libraries that hopefully rely on the JAAS standard interfaces
> and allow you to provide them with a custom LoginModule.
>
> Sylvain
>
> [1]
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/security/auth/spi/LoginModule
>.html

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