Maybe some other people could respond also since i am a bit biased :)
but here goes.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:14 AM, mfs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Guys,
>
>  I need some suggestions as to which of the above would be the right
>  framework for the the application i am currently working on..Some important
>  fact which would help are as follows :
>
>
>  1) All the pages in the application would be secure and hence would require
>  authentication.

You can do this with Swarm, Wicket-auth-roles or a custom build
solution. It is dead easy.

>
>  2) There would be two type of users accessing the application. For now, i
>  see access being restricted on the whole page itself rather on more granular
>  components. But later down the road that would come in too as the scope
>  increases.

2 types of users sounds like something you could do easily with
Wicket-auth-roles, especially with the page security scope.
However if you want to go more granular later on i think Swarm would
be a better choice because it allows more flexibility on the
granularity of your authorization and makes no distinction between 2
or 200 user types

>
>  3) IMP - The application has to support inter-operability with some other
>  external apps. Now these (non java) external apps already have their own
>  mini authentication framework and thats what i will be using for user
>  authentication. So basically for all my Secure Pages i would have to
>  redirect to the LoginPage part of these external apps (and not wicket), I
>  hope thats possible ? , i believe it is with SWARM, some hints would be
>  really appreciated on that too. A bit on the authentication mechanism, so
>  basically on succesful login, this external app would 1) encode an authtoken
>  in the url 2) transfer the control over to my wicket app, and thats where i
>  would check if it is a valid/authenticated user based on the authToken.
>  Later on we plan to change this though, and instead have the authtoken
>  passed over in the cookie instead.

Well I haven't looked at all the possibilities yet but you could take
a look at 
https://wicket-stuff.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wicket-stuff/trunk/wicket-security/examples/yahoo-bbauth
it contains some unfinished code to let another server handle
authentication, another option might be something with the
WicketSessionFilter. There might be other (better) options i'm still
experimenting :)

>
>  Initially when i started of i wasnt planning to use any of the above
>  frameworks but than taking a look into SWARM made me feel like that it might
>  be a good choice, but would still want to have everyones opinion

I think Swarm is flexible enough to handle your requirements, but like
i said before i am biased :)

Maurice

>
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>
>  Thanks in advance
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