On 09/25/2011 09:45 AM, Stargazer wrote: > We have a Resin powered JEE app and are expanding it to work with > Android. One of the cool things on Android is you know the user is > logged into a Google account. With the Google App Engine, you can do > more that just authenticate since they provide all the back end service > data. For example, if I created a simple App Engine app which asked for > the Google id and password, I could then say "Hi John" having pulled > John as the real username, rather than the email address.
I've also added this as a bug report at http://bugs.caucho.com/view.php?id=4780. At minimum, we should have a built-in open-id authenticator and login. -- Scott > So to expand we can either (gulp) lose Resin and move entirely to the > App Engine, which I really don't want to do, or replicate the > authentication system Google uses, as in the simple example above, to do > it on Resin (which is what I prefer). In other words I want to > authenticate a valid Google user using Resin but never see the password. > > I see this issue as becoming more and more common, for example Google > just opened the API for Google+, and a great use case for us is to be > able to access a users circles from server side java. > > So as usual its over to you smarts on this list for ideas, or > suggestions such as if I should be looking at some OpenId or whatever > based system I can roll in ;-) Sincere thanks... > > > _______________________________________________ > resin-interest mailing list > [email protected] > http://maillist.caucho.com/mailman/listinfo/resin-interest > _______________________________________________ resin-interest mailing list [email protected] http://maillist.caucho.com/mailman/listinfo/resin-interest
