I've messed about and got my action method to make a call to a SessionBean. Which then looks up the current user via the SessionContext. The bean I create is then passed into the page via a t:saveState tag.
This is great for all pages off the main page, since an action method has been called before. Which located the user & populated the bean. For the first page though doesn't get displayed via an action method. So I'm stuck. I'm now looking into the Session-listener. Get back to you all with what I find. Any advice would be great though. -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Alexander (KBSA 21) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 October 2005 15:04 To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: RE: User Management - advice needed. Add a user-info-bean when a) the session is created (Session-listener) b) the user-credentials are created (by JAAS?) and just display them from within the JSF-page... hth Alexander ________________________________ From: Jeffrey Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:39 PM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: User Management - advice needed. Hello again. My question is this. I want when a JSF page is displayed, to look up the current user and display some information on them. For example... <% Principal principal = request.getUserPrincipal(); String userName = principal.getName(); User user = SomeUserManagementServerThing.loadUser(userName); %> <%=userName%> <%=user.isAdmin()%> The above code is fine for the old JSP/Struts way of doing thing. But what is the approach I should take in MyFaces? If the action method that makes the call to display the page knew about the Principle I could pass the User object in and all would be great. But I don't see a way for an action method to find out the currently logged in user. What do you guys think? Is a there a paper / tutorial already on this that I've missed? Thanks Jeff Using: JBoss 4.02, JAAS, DatabaseAuthentication
