I am able to authenticate the user from the database but there are different users in my app so I want to redirect them to their different homepages based on their Role.

The best way I guess would be by checking the user role in a struts action and then redirecting to appropriate page. But how do I do that. Does spring security set session variables storing authentication information.

If yes, then how do I access them in a struts action. Also how do I access the username and password after login