Hi Albert, I would not call myself a cocoon guru but I have faced this dilemma. The first time I didn't use any framework at all but referenced an ActiveX control in IE to return the windows user id which I tracked in an Oracle table.The second time I was using the Cocoon Portal so it was an obvious choice to use the new framework and this worked well using the http://osoco.sourceforge.net/cowarp/ stuff from Carsten Ziegler. I remember I did struggle and it was not totally clear to me how it all worked More recently I have reverted to the deprecated framework which satisfies my requirements for a small project. So, I would say it's down to your requirements. I'm sure it is worth investing the time in the new framework as I would expect it to better support LDAP authentication. Hope this helps, Warrell
_____ From: albert bertal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 March 2007 17:23 To: [email protected] Subject: the best authentication approach, cocoon guru needed!!!! Hi : I need to develop a web application with user authentication. I was reading the "authentication framework" docs at cocoon's documentation and I liked that authentication approach. But I've just read the Cocoon's "authentication framework" is now deprecated, so... which is the best approach to manage user's authentication right now ( 26, March 2007)? is there any sample about that? where?. Thanks a lot!!!. Please, help me to choose the right approach before getting hands dirty!!!!. Albert
