Hi Bruce, I've done a bit of thinking and your project concept is definitely sound, but I was thinking the Ki project should have at least a 'basic web' sample application in the Ki subversion repository. I would want end-users to be able to run this after checking-out the project or downloading it. I was thinking of dedicating some time to this this weekend.
However, I don't want to take anything away from your blog articles, so perhaps we should think of this as two separate efforts? Because Ki uses Maven to build, it would probably use that. But the basic webapp I'm thinking of would definitely need to be short and simple - no MVC frameworks, and just use the simplest config possible. Is this something you might want to contribute to our codebase? If not, that is totally cool, and we can just have two sample apps - it wouldn't hurt, that's for sure, and your blog articles would still be valuable as an unbiased perspective. I just don't want to 'step on your toes' so to speak - but I do feel that, out of due diligence to our user base, that it should be a responsibility of the project to have at least that kind of sample app in addition to say, a Spring/Hibernate app and a JEE/EJB3 app as well. Maybe even a Guice one too. What do you think? Best, Les On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Bruce Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK - I've started the code examples for the tutorial. > > My plan is to have a multi-part tutorial to show how to use JSecurity (or > should I be calling it Ki?) in web application that uses a database for > storing usernames and passwords. > > I've got the first two code examples done and if you could look them over > that would be helpful. > > 1. Database used is Apache Derby (it's an easy download and the user would > just need to unzip it to a folder named c:/derby. > a. The database just has one table - users with three columns (userid, > username, and password). For the first few examples, the passwords will be > stored in the database in plain text to take advantage of JSecurity's > default credential matcher. > b. You can download the Derby database here - > http://www.brucephillips.name/jsecurity_examples/securityDB.zip. If you > don't have the Derby jar files you can get them here: > http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html. > c. I've previously written about using Derby in a Java web application > on my blog so I can refer people to those blog articles if they are new to > using Derby. To use this Derby database with the example web application > you just need to download the Derby database and unzip it to c:/derby. > You'll need the derby.jar and derbyclient.jar on your web application's > class path. > > 2. First example (see the Eclipse archived dynamic web project at > http://www.brucephillips.name/jsecurity_examples/nosecurity.zip) has no > security and doesn't use JSecurity. This example is just to ensure the user > can run the basic web application and connect to the Derby database. The > example runs under Tomcat 6. The data source is setup in context.xml and > uses connection pooling. > > 3. The second example (see the Eclipse archived dynamic web project at > http://www.brucephillips.name/jsecurity_examples/somesecurity.zip) just > has basic user authentication using JSecurity. There are no roles or > permissions (those along with the JSecurity custom tags would be explored in > future tutorials). This is the project I really need you to review to see > if I've made some mistakes in the setup. > > Once you're OK with the code examples I've done so far, I plan to add a lot > of comments into the code and then write up the tutorial to walk someone > through setting up these examples from scratch. I want to keep the examples > are clean as possible so I won't be using Maven, Spring, Struts, or Ivy, > etc. > > After getting these first two code examples and the initial tutorial up > I'll start the next tutorial on probably setting up roles and securing > certain areas by role. > > Please let me know what changes I need to make to the code examples and > anything else that would be helpful. > > > Bruce > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Basic-Tutorial-That-Uses-A-Database-tp2571323p2577015.html > Sent from the JSecurity User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
