I think using a session bean in this case is better. Keep it stateless
too if possible. What we have done is written a Oracle package which
will authenticate the user and at the same time will returns some
necessary field to the front end in the same call which we will be
working with. For example the use name and password could be passed and
may be if it is authorized user we could send back
SessionTimeoutInterval, FirstName, LastName.
We are using session bean for this purpose and it works well.
Senthoor
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Subject: representing login info with entity beans?
I am working on a project where we need to repeatedly authenticate
access
to a session bean method. Due to some technical restrictions we can't
use
cookies to authenticate a session. Some piece of client software may
need
to access the same session bean method a hundred times in a row, but we
have no way of knowing (from the server side) whether or not those
requests are coming from the same client. There also may be many
clients
accessing the same method at the same time.
Username and password information is stored in a database. Would it
significantly increase performance to represent the username/password
information with an entity bean so that the container can cache that
information instead of making a trip to the db each time?
Anyone else out there had to solve a similar problem?
-M@
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Matt Hixson
Aventail Corporation
Seattle, Washington
www.aventail.com
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