Your users and roles are in a DB?  It's almost JDBCRealm, except you
have a table of roles for each application.  

Take a look at the JDBCRealm and I bet you could make your own Realm
based loosely on that.

- Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hookom, Jacob John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:20 PM
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> Subject: Realm Security Implementation Question [OT]
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> We are trying to figure out a way to handle realm-based 
> security in a multi-application environement where users and 
> their roles are specified in a DB.  Users are stored in one 
> table with password and there is a table for each application 
> definining permissions for the user.
>  
> I have been looking at the new JAASRealm the Craig put 
> together, but I'm not sure if it's exactly what we need or if 
> it's going overboard.  Otherwise we have to represent roles 
> in this manner: [applicationName]:[applicationId]:[role] and 
> have a specialized realm do string parsing to validate roles 
> within an application.  Our applications are deployed under a 
> single war to take advantage of a pseudo single sign-on.
>  
> Any suggestions would be apprechiated,
>  
> Jacob
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