Thanks!
That is EXACTLY what I was looking for!
-Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Antony Bowesman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: per-context realms
> Michael Jennings wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea of how I could go about implementing
> > realms/authentication on a per-context basis?
> > Ideally, what I would like to do is have each context control
> > their users and roles. Where should I look to get a clue?
>
> Make a simple realm implementation that simply gets the real realm
> config information from the context passed with the request, e.g.
>
> authenticate(Req)
> {
> Context ctx = req.getContext();
>
> // Now you have all the context config available
> ..
> }
>
> I have a JAAS realm which has context specific realm config using the
>
> <context-param>
> <param-name>Name</param-name>
> <param-value>Value</param-value>
> </context-param>
>
> attributes in web.xml to provide context specific control.
>
> In the realm, just so
>
> String ctxNameValue = ctx.getInitParameter("Name");
>
> or similar. With JAAS this is easy, because JAAS allows for different
> JAAS configurations to be used, you just specify a different config name
> to the JAAS context.
>
> Antony
