Thanks for the feedback.

I agree, it does not seem that JSR 149 is going anywhere (not sure why).
The only details that I have on the webSphere implementation is their 
documentation 
(http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ws51help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.wasee.doc/info/ee/ae/rprf_workareatune.html
 for an overview and 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ws51help/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.wasee.doc/info/ee/ae/rprf_workareatune.html
 for an example).

I agree that it sounds weird to add this to the security context although, from 
a pure JAAS point of view, the session id of an authenticated user can fit the 
profile of a Subject principal, I think.
I am just working around the fact that the full Subject is not available in my 
EJB code, unless I write my own security interceptor to do a doAs call and use 
the Subject.getSubject method. But I am not sure how well that will work across 
EARs and class loaders and I am not sure I want to enable the full blown Java 2 
security in my environment.

I am also looking for a portable (WebSphere, WebLogic and JBoss) way to make 
this work. I did not find enough hooks in WebLogic (yet) to implement the 

Thomas

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