> Hi Kevin,
>
> I'm glad to hear about your work on the integration of Tomcat with
> jBoss. I can't wait to see it.
Yeah. I'd like to get it integrated soon to get some feedback on it.
> It's an interesting question, where the jBoss-Tomcat stuff should
> go. If we put it in the normal hierarchy, we'll need to have all the
> Tomcmat stuff available during the build. Just to get a discussion
> going, let me suggest a three-part approach. What do you think
> about:
>
> 1. Putting things that depend on both jBoss and Tomcat in a new
> "tomcat integration" project, or if the code is too compact to merit
> this treatment, putting it in the "contrib" directory
Interesting. I would assume that at some point, jBoss will be a J2EE
system with Tomcat as the web container. I don't like the idea of
contrib, since I think the Tomcat integration (and perhaps distribution)
should eventually be part of the core jBoss distribution.
> 2. Including instructions for configuring an ant build to use jBoss
> and Tomcat libraries
Definitely. This shouldn't be too difficult. We use ant for our build,
currently.
> 3. Including binary versions of interceptors in the zipped
> distribution, with a "readme" for their use
That's fine with me.
> I'm not sure about the APL / GPL licensing problems. But I'm sure
> plenty of other people will be. :-)
Yeah; there seems to be lots of enthusiasm for "understanding" that
issue.
> (By the way, my "security integration" with Tomcat was basically
> one import and two lines of code added to an existing file as an
> example. I probably should have just put a diff on the list,
> but I was
> afraid that people might be using different versions of the file. Did
> you just set the principal and credential in SecurityAssociation?)
Right. This is pretty much it:
public class JbossRealm extends BaseInterceptor {
public int authenticate( Request req, Response response ){
Hashtable cred=new Hashtable();
SecurityTools.credentials( req, cred );
String user=(String)cred.get("username");
SecurityAssociation.setPrincipal( new SimplePrincipal(
user ) );
return 0;
}
}
