Java EE 6 Programmatic security, glassfish and JDBC realm -


i'm exploring pure java ee ways of doing programmatic security, login users, based on jdbc realm glassfish server.

so basically, in login servlet i'm doing

string username = request.getparameter("username"); string password = request.getparameter("password");  try {     request.login(username, password); ....

without doing in web.xml, default realm (file) used. don't want that, want use jdbcrealm named jdbcsecurerealm.

so i'm adding following web.xml

<login-config>     <auth-method>form</auth-method>     <realm-name>jdbcsecurerealm</realm-name> </login-config>

note don't add form-login-config define form-login-page , form-error-page.

then if define security constraints such as

<security-constraint>     <web-resource-collection>         <web-resource-name>admin pages</web-resource-name>         <description></description>         <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>     </web-resource-collection>     <auth-constraint>         <role-name>administrator</role-name>     </auth-constraint> </security-constraint>

well... works ! request.login checks against jdbcrealm , if try access secured pages without being logged in i'm getting nice 403.

but seems i'm mixing declarative security , programmatic security, because feel shouldn't declaring inside web.xml rather using request.isuserinrole.

question:

am hitting glassfish specific behaviour, or allowed use programmatic security (request.login) jdbc realm defined inside web.xml without form-login-config ?

update i've seen there possibility specify realm inside glassfish-application.xml, better approach build ear instead of war in order specify realm ?

a purely programmatic approach in portable (pure java ee) way not possible when use container specific (proprietary) login modules such glassfish jdbc login module/realm.

there api in java ee 6 this: jaspic. api (spi technically), can build portable authentication modules , configure them programmatic without need declaration.

i wrote blog article provides more details.


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