This tutorial desribes, how to install and configure a standalone Tomcat, so that a deployed webapp can connect to a jBoss and use the authentication of the application server. This method is decoupled from the login module or authentication type (LDAP, Database, …), respectively. It differs from the approach described in Standalone Tomcat with jBoss plus authentication against LDAP, in that it allows for parallel logged in users and it does not need to authenticate to LDAP/Database on both sides, but on the jBoss only.
Tag: LDAP
Using External LDAP Naming service in JBoss-5.1.0.GA
Often you’re using ldap for authentication. But what if you’d like to store more information to your ldap and access it from your enterprise application? You can add an external context to your JNDI tree.
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Standalone Tomcat with jBoss plus authentication against LDAP
There is a 2nd edition of this post: Standalone Tomcat with jBoss (2nd Edition)!
This tutorial desribes, how to install and configure a standalone Tomcat, so that a deployed webapp can authenticate against LDAP and connect to a jBoss passing the credentials in every call of an EJB via remote interface , so that the business application can authenticate against the same LDAP, too. The configuration of the jBoss seems to be a more common and better documented task and will be covered in another tutorial, which I will link here later, as soon as I have written it.
WARNING: Please don’t use this solution in a productive system, but for testing purpose only. The custom LdapExtLoginModule presented here exposes the credentials of all online users to all classes using the same class loader! I will add a blog post, as I find a solution for production systems.
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