The only solution that I see, is to use your own security. One solution: use a Filter that is mapped to every request. Check if username and passwort are present, validate them and place a user object in the session. Where ever you want to have diffen content for an authenticated user you can query for that object to show the content.
As we have implemented something like that, quite before something like realms came to the world, I havn't looked at the details of realms. So I'm not shure how much of the Realms you can reuse to implement this. Ralph Einfeldt Uptime Internet Solution Center GmbH Hamburg, Germany Hosting, Content Management, Java Consulting http://www.uptime-isc.de > -----Original Message----- > From: Juergen Weber [mailto:weberjn@;yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Programmatic login > > > we have a portal. Now the marketing people want that > on the portal page be a form with user and password > field. After submitting the user should be logged in. > > First this looked like a very easy to do feature. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>