RE: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-24 Thread Fowler, Perryn
Of Muhammad Momin Rashid Sent: Wednesday, 12 September 2007 7:32 PM To: user@struts.apache.org Subject: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial? Hello Everyone, I am looking for a tutorial for integrating JAAS into my Struts 2 + Hibernate Application. Can anyone point me to the right resources? Is JAAS the best

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-24 Thread wild_oscar
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Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Roughley
You can find the key features of acegi here - http://www.acegisecurity.org/. I see the advantages as being able to customize the authentication and authorization from within the scope of the web application, and not external configuration via an app server. But then, this also depends on

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-18 Thread Mark McLaren
Hi all, I think this is a generic problem rather than something Struts 2 specific. Ideally in this situation you would want to be able to access getRemoteUser() and isUserInRole() from the request. One approach is to use your application servers' container managed security, e.g. Tomcat

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Pratt
On 9/18/07, Ian Roughley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By implementing the PrincipalAware interface, the Principal object will be injected into the action with those values from the request (the user, roles, etc.). The values can be be used in the action, or the Principal can be exposed with a

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-18 Thread Ian Roughley
By implementing the PrincipalAware interface, the Principal object will be injected into the action with those values from the request (the user, roles, etc.). The values can be be used in the action, or the Principal can be exposed with a setter for the actions to use. /Ian Mark McLaren

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-18 Thread Ian Roughley
If you are not using container managed persistence, where the HttpRequest values are being set in the environment, you probably don't want to use the Principal or PrincipalAware interface, or even to wrap the HttpServletRequest (this email was in response to using a servlet wrapper to

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-17 Thread Muhammad Momin Rashid
Hello Tom, Thanks for your continued input. The application isn't simple, it is a J2EE application which will serve a large number of users (users will be using Web Browser or Mobile Device to access the application). Based on the help I got on this list, I have been successful in setting

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-17 Thread Eugen Stoianovici
I would like a tutorial on integrating jaas in struts2 too. Or rather than a tutorial, i would like to see some working code. I've done a lot of reading (i'm new to java web applications, it's been only a month since i've started) and i have some understanding on how this should work but i

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-16 Thread tom tom
If it's simple application, you dont need JAAS, You can do it via just session management isnt it? You might need user, role, user-role threee tables on database thats it :) If you are using Application server like Jboss, the server itself got inbuilt features, which is altogether a different

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-13 Thread Muhammad Momin Rashid
Hello tom, I am building a J2EE application, that is going to be viewed using Web Browser and Mobile Devices. I am trying to implement security so that only a logged in user with the correct role can access the different parts of the application e.g. a non-logged in user can only access the

JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-12 Thread Muhammad Momin Rashid
Hello Everyone, I am looking for a tutorial for integrating JAAS into my Struts 2 + Hibernate Application. Can anyone point me to the right resources? Is JAAS the best way to go, or there are better alternates? If anyone thinks there are better alternates, can you provide me with the links

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-12 Thread Mark McLaren
Hi Muhammad, With respect to JAAS integration. Do you mean something like this? http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/how-do-i-obtain-security-details-jaas.html I'm new to Struts 2 but I would imagine you probably want an interceptor of some kind (RolesInterceptor, PrincipalAware etc.) to pass

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-12 Thread Muhammad Momin Rashid
Hello Mark, Thanks for your response. Actually I am writing a Web Application from Scratch, using Struts 2 and Hibernate. I need to implement security so that only authorised User can access the desired pages. The user names, passwords and their roles are stored in the database. I am

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-12 Thread Mark McLaren
Muhammad, Starting out from scratch should you use JAAS? I'm not a JAAS expert (I tend to use JASIG CAS which uses JAAS internally and SecurityFilter) but I imagine it all depends on your circumstances. From what I can gather if you need to reuse the exact same login mechanism for desktop

Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-12 Thread wild_oscar
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Re: JAAS struts 2 Tutorial?

2007-09-12 Thread tom tom
what exactly you are trying to do? --- Muhammad Momin Rashid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I am looking for a tutorial for integrating JAAS into my Struts 2 + Hibernate Application. Can anyone point me to the right resources? Is JAAS the best way to go, or there are