Authentication without Backing Bean

[carp]

Hi Members,

I am trying to use Acegi with JSF. I want to authenticate users without using any Backing Bean. What is the procedure for this?
I mean what should I mention in my JSF page and faces-config.xml.
Awaiting response.

[karldmoore]

I'm sorry I don't understand what you're actually asking for here, any chance of some more information?

[carp]

Hi karldmoore,

What I meant to say was that, when using simple html forms we just mention <form action="j_acegi_security_check" method="post"> and then the AuthenticationProcessingFilter comes into action but how does Acegi come into picture when using JSF. It would be very helpful if you could send me a sample login jsf page and faces-config.xml. I hope you understand my problem or if I am moving in a wrong direction then please guide me.Thanks.

[jiai]

What I meant to say was that, when using simple html forms we just mention <form action="j_acegi_security_check" method="post"> and then the AuthenticationProcessingFilter comes into action but how does Acegi come into picture when using JSF. It would be very helpful if you could send me a sample login jsf page and faces-config.xml.

I believe you'll need some kind of backing mechanism as described in http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=29425 and http://www.javakaffee.de/blog/2006/0...-backing-bean/. In this case it is a managed JSF bean. Something I tried is to modify the code from this sample and put the call to this object via DI into the page backing bean, which is a standard in the Creator/VisualWeb programming model.

But what I didn't get run with this technique is different authorization for different directories together with a working AccessDeniedHandler.

Btw. I'm searching such an example too (http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=35661, http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=35736).

jiai