Re: [Springframework-developer] JAAS

[Luke T. <luk...@fr...>]

Isabelle Muszynski wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm doing some stuff with JAAS at work, and it seems like it would be
> a nice addition to Spring. Basically JAAS is a pluggable
> authentication and authorization framework. So you can have a
> database service provider, an LDAP service provider, a file service
> provider etc... but the API stays the same.
> 
> What do you think?

Isn't JAAS less of an application framework thing than a server 
infrastructure thing (in a J2EE context). I know JBoss uses JAAS to 
allow you to plug-in various different types of security infrastructure 
or to write your own, but wouldn't you just be duplicating this?

Luke.

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