RE: -- Arved -- Can you please help me with servlet authentication?

2000-11-22 Thread Arved Sandstrom
]On Behalf Of Tim Endres Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 7:07 PM To: Orion-Interest Cc: Arved Sandstrom Subject: RE: -- Arved -- Can you please help me with servlet authentication? Hi Arved, Although we have a single servlet front-end, and do programmatic usermanagement (including login), the a

RE: -- Arved -- Can you please help me with servlet authentication?

2000-11-22 Thread Tim Endres
You'll understand that we are using 100% programmatic user management. Also, I think (in your last few paras) that you are close to answering your own question. If you've got multiple users and you cannot rely on a jndi.properties, then by exclusion you must rely on the users to supply their

RE: -- Arved -- Can you please help me with servlet authentication?

2000-11-21 Thread Arved Sandstrom
Although we have a single servlet front-end, and do programmatic usermanagement (including login), the actual user manager and role manager stuff all happens down in EJB-land (in a session bean being referenced from the servlet). So we do not use JNDI properties at all for authentication, except

Re: -- Arved -- Can you please help me with servlet authentication?

2000-11-21 Thread Christian Sell
Incidentally, the location of jndi.properties, and how it works, is dictated by Java (I think starting with JDK 1.2, but it could have been 1.3). If there exists a jndi.properties in your classpath, it will get read. So this behaviour is entirely independent of J2EE. this might also have to

RE: -- Arved -- Can you please help me with servlet authentication?

2000-11-21 Thread Tim Endres
Hi Arved, Although we have a single servlet front-end, and do programmatic usermanagement (including login), the actual user manager and role manager stuff all happens down in EJB-land (in a session bean being referenced from the servlet). So we do not use JNDI properties at all for