Wouldn't that be SessionContext.getCallerPrincipal() ?
Juergen
kistler wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently developing an Enterprise application which Comprises of a
> servlet and ejb for Geronimo 2.1 and I have secured the Ejb with a
> Security Realm configured to authenticate against a SQLLoginModule. I'm
> confident that this is authenticating correctly as I have done negative
> and positive testing.
>
> I'm testing my ejb my connecting to it from a servlet as follows:
>
> CallbackHandler handler = new
> UserIdPasswordCallbackHandler(user,
> password);
> LoginContext ctx = new LoginContext("SecurityRealm",handler);
> ctx.login();
>
> This succeeds when supplied the correct credentials and throws exceptions
> with invalid credentials.
>
> I obtain a reference to the remote interface as follows:
>
> Properties prop=new Properties();
> prop.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
> "org.apache.openejb.client.RemoteInitialContextFactory");
> prop.put("java.naming.provider.url",
> "ejbd://localhost:4201");
> Context context = new InitialContext(prop);
>
> Object o = context.lookup("SessionManagerBeanRemote");
> SessionManagerRemote remote = (SessionManagerRemote)o;
>
> This works correctly as I am able to call my remote ejb methods!
>
> Now - the piece I am missing is I need to be able to obtain the current
> Subject that was authenticated. ie - I need to know the identity of the
> user that has been authenticated to use this ejb and is invoking it. So
> if joe was authenticated to use the SessionManager - I need to be able to
> obtain joe's login name.
>
> I believe if I was within a web container I'd be able to use the
> equivalent of: HttpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal() ... Can someone
> point me to a reference, decently documented example or something that
> will tell me what API I need to use? I'm happy to do some reading but
> I've looked around quite a bit and I think I might be missing something...
> There doesn't seem to be a clear reference to this is the standard
> geronimo documentation - only some lite discussion for web containers.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -Keith
>
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