Re: Custom Realm implementations

[Christopher K . St . John]

"Dettling, Ingo" wrote:
> 
> Do you see a chance to make GenericPrincipal a public class in the
> next release?
> 

 It's public in 4.0.3.


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Custom Realm implementations

[Dettling, Ingo]

Hi folks,

I am a member of a developer team at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and one
of my tasks was to develop a realm for accessing a LDAP server which stores
its data in a way that is not conform to your JNDIRealm. No problem so far.

The realm's authenticate function has to return a new instance of
GenericPrincipal, but GenericPrincipal is not a public class. This forced me
to put our custom realm in package org.apache.catalina.realm, allthough this
is a very special class that does not make sense to rest of the world and
therefore it should not reside in one of Tomcat's packages.

If GenericPrincipal would be public I could use a package name that makes it
obvious that our realm is a very custom one.
By the way, because of what I had to do JBuilder gets into problems, too.
Question: Do you see a chance to make GenericPrincipal a public class in the
next release?

Regards,
Ingo Dettling 


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