One of the projects I'm currently architecting has need for specialized security - above and beyond what our CMS will do (CMS will handle it to the application on a per-user bases). I'm implementing this through use of a Filter and a HTTPRequestWrapper. Oh, and I've tossed in a custom implementation of Principal to make things nice and "tidy". Once complete I'll be able to leverage standard calls like "isUserInRole" and "getUserPrincipal" to deal with my users. The nice thing is, because of the nature of filters, once I'm done with this I can jar it up, drop it in any application I write (and add to the web.xml of that app) and use the exact same thing for many other applications (I have at least 2 to get out this quarter ... they seem to be finding new ones for me to write all the time)!
Gotta love real reuse in actual practice! ;-)
Filters fit a lot of problems really nicely - even if you don't build a request/response wrapper to go along with them. They're extremely handy for the problems that they do solve.
Good Luck,
Eddie
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Subject: Authentication and Authorization
Hi Every One,
Does Struts have any type of authentication/ authorization mecanism?
Best regards,
Davi Salgueiro
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