using acegi on a distributed system without web

[rjst]

Hi,

We are considering using acegi for the security layer of our app, which doesn't have a web layer.

We have a server that uses hibernate+spring and a swing client (probably will use spring rcp in the future).

1) Since most thread discuss web scenarios, would there be any problem in a a client-server scenario ?

2) Our swing app needs to work regardless of the server being up (although only on future versions). Can some sort of credentials caching be done on the client ?

thanks
Ricardo

[Ben Alex]

Acegi Security works fine with rich clients. You can plug in your own client-side AuthenticationProvider which is designed to cache credentials etc. You should be fine using Acegi Security in this scenario.