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Giulio,
On 2/20/13 8:58 AM, Giulio Quaresima wrote:
> I have a little [question] about the default Realm implementations
> which comes with Tomcat. In particular, I refer to JAASRealm.
>
> I developed a JAAS LoginModule which populate the Subject with a
> user principal called MyUserPrincipal. This Principal
> implementation expose some information which are useful to
> recognize the user (myUserCode in this example). JAASRealm
> incapsulate my principal in a GenericPrincipal instance, which in
> turn refers to my principal through the getUserPrincipal() method.
Why are you using GenericPrincipal at all?
> The problem is that, respecting the low-copuling principle, I don't
> want to expose the Container API (catalina) to my webapps, because
> I want my webapps virtually deployable in any environment, without
> any modification.
That sounds like a reasonable goal.
> public class MyUserPrincipal implements Principal { private String
> name; private int myUserCode; public static MyUserPrincipal
> getInstance(Principal principal) { if (principal instanceof
> GenericPrincipal)
Why do you have any of this at all? You should just have the
"implements Principal" in your class and that should be it.
- -chris
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