Excellent, that was the sort of reply I was hoping for.  

thanks again,
dim

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Scott M Stark wrote:

> The problem is that JMS has no real notion of security. You can provide
> a username and password when obtaining a connection but this is
> the extent of JMS security. There is no defined mechanism for propagating
> the user identity as part of the message.
> 
> I think its rather poor myself. I would be inclined to add a security
> context filter to the JBoss MDB logic that allowed one to specify which
> message properties should be used in constructing the security context
> for a message delivered to an MDB. Totally non-portable, but the current
> state is useless for secured MDBs. This could be a simple extension of
> the current SecurityInterceptor that would be used for the MDB container
> and could be driven off of the jboss.xml section for MDBs.
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dmitri Colebatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:24 AM
> Subject: [JBoss-user] mdb and security context
> 
> 
> > hey list,
> >
> > I've been spending the last few days looking at mechanisms for
> > asynchronous container invocations, and am now going to ask a question I
> > should have asked previously.
> >
> > Can someone give me a viewpoint on why the security context of a
> > invocation does not get propagated with a JMS call?  From what I know of
> > the container, it would be very doable, but if theres a good reason why
> > its not done, then it'd be stupid of me to try... or is it just that we're
> > talking about young things (JMS, MDB)?
> >
> > cheers
> > dim
> >
> 
> 
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