Its not about dropping the container managed authentication, in fact, I would prefer to keep it. Its more about finding a clean solution to the problem, that scales well too.
I'm thinking about the problem... I implemented a kind of 'UserStore' in slide about a year or more ago, which provided an abstract interface for accessing the users to the Slide API, and two sample 'Stores' a SlideStoreSlideUserStore (which actually kept the users on the slide file system in the old fashioned way for backwards compatibility) and a LDAPSlideUserStore. In this solution the container does the authentication, and slide obtains the principal from the container. Slide checks the permissions. Both systems, however, use the same storage for the users.
Would you send a more detailed description of your work to this list. Having a LDAP authentication for Slide would be nice for many people, I guess.
This kind of direction looks promising to me. There were even a couple of people interested in the change at the time, but I found the changes within slide I had to make to get it working were pretty deep, and no one else managed to integrate the patches... However, now that the group is alive, something of this scale might be attempted again.
If people want this I am pretty sure we can integrate this into Slide. Although, I am not quite sure if it will make it into Slide 2.0 ...
Let's hear the voice of the pepole :)
Oliver
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