[cas-dev] Sharing Cas JBoss Client?

[Eric Pugh]

cool..  If you need any help, please hollar!   Hopefully you don't  
have to change any Jboss related files, just pull in the jars...

eEric

On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Scott Battaglia wrote:

> Eric,
>
> I haven't committed yet because I've been having some issues with  
> extending the JBoss/Catalina classes.  I'm going to hold off on  
> integrating it until we get the 3.1 client release out and it will  
> go into the 3.1.1 release.  There are a couple of things (like  
> Acegi) that are waiting for the 3.1 release.
>
> Thanks
> -Scott
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 12:15 PM, Eric Pugh <  
> epugh at opensourceconnections.com> wrote:
> Scott,
>
> I am guessing since I don't see anything here:  http://developer.ja- 
> sig.org/source/browse/jasigsvn/cas-clients/java-client/trunk  that  
> you haven't committed your changes yet?   Let me know if I can help  
> on the integration/upgrade stuff.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric
>
> On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Scott Battaglia wrote:
>
>> Eric,
>>
>> Sorry for the delayed response.  Please feel free to attach it to  
>> a JIRA issue and I will review it for inclusion in the CAS client  
>> (updating it to the most recent version).  If you're interested in  
>> maintaining it on a permanent basis, we can grant you Subversion  
>> access ;-) [that's not a requirement for submitting it though].
>>
>> Thanks for your contribution!
>> -Scott
>>
>> On 11/1/07, Eric Pugh <epugh at opensourceconnections.com > wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've developed, against the Java Cas Client 3.0.0-final a integration
>> module for JBoss that adds a new web authenticator to the ususal FORM
>> and BASIC called CAS.
>>
>> The code is built using Maven, and follows the same structure as the
>> cas-client-core project.  What is the best way for me to share it and
>> submit it for inclusion?  Open a ticket or put up a wiki page?
>>
>> Here is a summary from the readme that I wrote:
>>
>> 1.  INTRODUCTION
>>
>> This module is designed to support CAS as an authentication mechanism
>> for JBoss based web applications.  Most users
>> wrap their web app in some Servlet Filters that provide the CAS
>> authentication mechanism.  The filter populates the
>> user Principal, and then the webapp can make decisions based on that.
>> However, the "filter" approach is a bit clumsy
>> since we already have defined in the <auth-method/> paremeter of
>> web.xml the ability to specify how to authenticate a webapp:
>>
>> From the specification: "Legal values are "BASIC","DIGEST", "FORM",
>> "CLIENT-CERT", or a vendor-specific authentication scheme."
>>
>> So this code adds a new vendor-specific authentication scheme to
>> JBoss: CAS.
>>
>> Additionally, using the filter approach means that the authenticatin
>> information never reaches the EJB layer, so if you are using
>> principals and roles in your EJB's, then the filter won't work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric
>>
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