An option between #1 and #2 is you can create a plugin and in the
Manifest.MF there is an option that will make the plugin be loaded on
startup. The startup of that method can do the authentication. This
way you don't need to change anything in uDig at all. I can't remember
the exact option that you need but you should be able to look it up in
the eclipse online help.
Jesse
euan crawford wrote:
I need to authenticate users of my uDig plugin (restricts access to a
MySQL backend and selectively disables tools/menu items according to a
user's role). The hooks for displaying a login form are ..
#1 at uDig startup: clean for the user but requires catching
UDigApplication.run() and showing the login before
createAndRunWorkbench()) is called. However I don't want to make
changes to the uDig platform. Is it possible to create a new RCP
application that extends uDig - it would one contain one class that
overrides and calls UDigApplication.run() after the login.
#2 during plugin initialization: ideal but can't be done with lazy
loading of plugins. Classes within a plugin are only loaded when the
UI component (tool/menu etc) is invoked?
#3 on demand (user presses a login tool): not ideal as it requires an
extra mouse click and the menus/tools to be disabled at startup.
Any suggestions/comments?
Euan
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