C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
I am learning my ways through Struts having done Servlets and JSPs
before. In order to have authentication functionalities with my Servlets
I used to have a user table and a roles table. Once the user logs in
he/she would be authenticated with the user name, password through
Tomcat as it was configured with the database information, table name, etc.
I would like to do pretty much the same with Struts. I have checked the
O'Reilly Struts Cookbook but, although it has great authentication tips,
it does not include a recipe to have authentication with a database. Is
there any article on how to perform it with Struts? Any books that you
would suggest?
So what I think is that I should have a model class to do this kind of
authentication rather than using the XML config files. However how would
I include all the roles in that class? Have a data structure like a list
maybe? That way I could always check for a specific role for every JSP
or action whether the user would be allowed or not. Any thoughts?
You can set up container managed security in just the same was as you've
done previously, you don't need to do anything new or different with Struts
(provided container managed security gives you everything you need). Once
you have it setup you can tell Struts to restrict access to actions based
on roles through struts-config.xml.
L.
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