On Apr 19, 2009, at 5:40 AM, Jeff Rush wrote:
1) It is rather monolithic; you can't grant access to this page or
that one selectively, or perhaps add a security check into the URL
traversal steps to control access to a hierarchy of sub-pages.
Viewing the portal as the frontdoor of a site requiring
authentication, it makes it tricky to have some non-authenticating
pages for visitors to register or have their forgotten password
mailed to them. [...]
2) Alternatively, one could dynamically generate a custom tree of
pages/resources within the realm object, returning a different tree
depending upon the identity/permissions of
the user. [...]
I haven't done any development like this for a number of years, but
when I was, I also found cred/portal/guard rather cumbersome.
Unfortunately I don't have anything actually useful to add to the
discussion, but I feel your pain. :)
James
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