You might try to make a custom UserManager that delegates to the default 
one, and then performs some actions.

Aaron Tavistock wrote:
> We've been using J2EE based security for some time now, its working great
> for us supporting several hundred users distributed across a handful of
> servers.  
> 
> Heres my issue - I have a set of things that happen on every page, a portion
> of which is looking for a 'new' login which then launches a series of things
> including doing database lookups, dropping stuff in the session, etc.  
> 
> Its occured to me that it would be significantly more effective if this was
> chained off the J2EE authentication, instead of checking on each page.  I
> started looking into it and it looks like 1) its not part of the spec and 2)
> Orion has no specific implementation.   The current implementation of J2EE
> security is so completely handled by the container that theres no way to get
> something in there.
> 
> I then started going down the question of 'what is J2EE security except a
> filter?', so I could potentially chain a filter through there?  It doesn't
> solve the problem because it still happens on each page hit.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on the best way to do 'postprocessing' when the user
> is authenticated?
> 



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