Creating a custom security adapter

The Java Component security adapter is designed so that other applications can authenticate users and log into Java Component using a URL. When a URL activates a custom Java Component security adapter, access is granted based on the security adapter’s logic. A Java Component security adapter establishes an additional layer of logic to the existing Java Component, as shown in Figure 8-1.

Figure 8-1

Java Component security model with an optional security adapter

The Java Component Login module creates a Properties object that contains the values of configuration settings that correspond to the class’s public fields before calling the authenticate( ) method. These values are gathered from the entries in the <context_root>\WEB-INF\web.xml configuration file.

To create a custom security adapter, perform the following steps:

Ensure that your application can access the IPSE Java classes.

Create a Java class that implements the custom security adapter class for IPSE.

Compile, compress, and move the new class into the class libraries for the Java Component.

Set the Java Component configuration file web.xml to use the new class.

Deploy the Custom Security Adapter.

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