Re: [flexcoders] Explaining Flex Log In and User Role Functionality to Java Developers

2005-05-18 Thread dave buhler
Highly educational. Thanks Brian.On 5/18/05, Brian Deitte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Instead of giving the information to you in the easiest language, I'm just going to try to give you a whole lot of information.  :)  I would first suggest looking at how J2EE security works.  The firs

Re: [flexcoders] Explaining Flex Log In and User Role Functionality to Java Developers

2005-05-18 Thread Leif Wells
Brian, Thanks for identifying a resource that I should have looked at a long time ago!On 5/18/05, Brian Deitte <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: This article could also be very helpful to the experienced J2EE developers and give them an idea of how Flex security works.  Lastly, I would try setting

RE: [flexcoders] Explaining Flex Log In and User Role Functionality to Java Developers

2005-05-18 Thread Peter Farland
threadlocal variables from flashgateway.Gateway. -Original Message- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:22 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Explaining Flex Log In and User Role

RE: [flexcoders] Explaining Flex Log In and User Role Functionality to Java Developers

2005-05-18 Thread Brian Deitte
Instead of giving the information to you in the easiest language, I'm just going to try to give you a whole lot of information.  :)  I would first suggest looking at how J2EE security works.  The first place I can think of is here:   http://livedocs.macromedia.com/jrun/4/Programmers_Guide/s

Re: [flexcoders] Explaining Flex Log In and User Role Functionality to Java Developers

2005-05-17 Thread dave buhler
The lesson here is: Don't copy copy the address bar for liveDocs. Copy the page URL within the frameset. Also, when using setCredentials or passing over any login and password, you can use some type of hashing/encryption. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/15/flex_docs_en/0885.htm#wp126

Re: [flexcoders] Explaining Flex Log In and User Role Functionality to Java Developers

2005-05-17 Thread Leif Wells
Dave, thanks for replying. The link you provided for the livedocs takes me to a page about containers. Since that is not the point we were discussing, I can only imagine that something is wrong with that link. ;-)  (either that or Gmail is misinterpreting the link) If you could provide the top

Re: [flexcoders] Explaining Flex Log In and User Role Functionality to Java Developers

2005-05-17 Thread Scott Barnes
Like Dave said, you could use setCredentials over the pipe to access remote methods, but for those who are anti-letting-client-side-have-username-password-stored-locally you can still leveridge existing session scope compliance. In that, you can make your backend handle its security model tran

Re: [flexcoders] Explaining Flex Log In and User Role Functionality to Java Developers

2005-05-17 Thread dave buhler
Hi Leif, I had presented a similar question a few days ago regarding Flex and CF7 which runs on j2EE. I can share with you what I know, but I am also looking to learn more about security with Remoting, myself. You should be able to attach setCredentials to your Remote Call. I know setCredenti