Hi Julian,
you should take a look at CMS (container-managed security) as this is probably the most effective solution - integrated, portable, widespread etc.
Try either tomcat's website for documentation there, or even look in the servlet spec from Sun, or in your appserver's docs, to see if it suits your needs.
Struts has many features that allows you to leverage CMS in the ways you say you require.
Persistence of your user info & groups or roles etc is done under CMS in whichever way you choose - there are various 'realm' implementations which allow database stores, XML files, LDAP or bespoke solutions.
HTH Adam
On 11/17/2004 03:09 AM Julian wrote:
Hi, I am a Struts Newbie and would appreciate if anyone could give me some pointers on a user preferences/ configuration system design. Perhaps a link to a good resource? I have an ASP system with several levels of "users" that are as broad as an organization and as fine-grained as an individual person with one role. I would like to have a preference system that can handle configuration and preference issues for the different levels of the application. The information stored in these configurations range from font colors and alert boxes to the availability of various modules in the web application. Currently the information is stored in xml files on the server's hard disk, but this will not suit a distributable environment. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance, Julian
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