> -----Original Message-----
> From: El Toro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: ActionForward to a different Web App
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a struts web application running within Tomcat
> 5.x that is responsible for authentication.
> Authentication in this case just checks a username and
> password against a database and then creates a 'User'
> object and dumps it in the session.
Okay.. except that unless your application server knows that this is one session, it
will generate a session the first time a user hits every web app.
Tomcat has singl-sign-on, which will do what you want. Websphere does as well.
>
> After a successful authentication I would like to
> forward the request to another web application running
> within the same instance of tomcat. This web
> application will know that the user is authenticated
> if the 'User' object is present in the session.
>
> The problem I am having is that a new session is
> created when I redirect/forward the request to the
> other web application from the authentication
> application, therefore my 'User' object is not present
> and everyone is unhappy.
>
> Does anyone know how to accomplish such a thing with
> struts/tomcat 5.x. Here is what I am doing within my
> Authentication app upon successful authentication:
>
> nextPage = new
> ActionForward("http://THEHOST:8080/THEWEBAPP/welcome.do";,
> true);
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Topero Romano
>
>
>
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