You don't want to use GWT for authentication, what you want to do is use the authentication provided to you by the container. The solution that Danny provided does just that. You want to use a JSR-196 authentication provider like openId4Java and use your web.xml to require authentication to access certain services within your application.
On Jul 29, 9:17 am, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > > I'm not convinced that GWT is the right environment for Authentication. GWT > is a great toolkit, but solving the authentication/authorization problem in > an application-agnostic way is a tough problem to solve. > > FWIW, one of my current apps supports traditional username/password as well > as OpenID. The reason is that a few of the beta testers found OpenID "too > confusing". > > I don't use server side Java; I found some OpenID client validation code in > PHP that does what I want. > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:00 PM, V M <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello GWT Users, > > > I am just wondering if we have any Library to do authentication using > > OpenID providers like Google accounts/Facebook. > > > Here is what i am trying to do: > > > * Create a site which needs log-in widget/page/module to customize UI for > > Users. > > > What is the best way to create a Login form in this case? > > > I appreciate if you could point me to some examples. > > > Thanks in advance. > > > -V M > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
