On 10/03/11 11:10 PM, java4dev_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to web development and decided to use glassfish as application
> server.
> My problem is that I found the available documentation incomplete for
> many things I need to do.
> First thing I have to do is to figure out how to setup authentication
> and registration for my application.
>
> I first tried to use a JDBC realm and I found through google search
> dome blogs describing how to setup a jdbc realm and a form based
> authentication, but the problem is that they define only two tables,
> one for users and on that is basically relation between users and
> groups, no roles at all and no accee control, and they provide jsp/html
> pages instead of jsf.
Are you aware of this external project :
http://flexiblejdbcrealm.wamblee.org/site/
> Finally I decided that if I am going to keep copying my data to
> different tables (my schema is more complete supporting users, groups,
> roles, access rights etc) to support glassfish then it is probably
> better to use LDAP.
> But there is no documentation on how to setup something like this.
> There is no ldif file for the structure.
> Where can I found information on how to setup glassfish with LDAP. How
> to setup groups Roles and access control on the LDAP server that
> glassfish can use?
> How can I write jsf pages for user login/registration ?
>
> just point me to the right direction(documents)
>
>
See if this helps :
https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/GlassfishApplicationServer
regards,
kumar
> thank you
>
> Nikolas