Weblogic Authenticate.authenticate equivalent in JBOSS 7

Question

What is the equivalent code in JBOSS 7 for Weblogic's login security module code Authenticate.authenticate()

Answer 1

I recommend you toroughfully read JBOSS excellent migration guide .

WebLogic provides a proprietary ServletAuthentication class to perform programmatic login. In JBoss AS 7, you can use the standard Java EE6 Servlet 3.0 HttpServletRequest.login() method to perform programmatic login or you can define a element in the web.xml file.

To enable programmatic login, you must replace the WebLogic proprietary code with one of the following:

• You can add the following annotations to the Servlet class that performs the authentication.

  // Imports for annotations
  import javax.annotation.security.DeclareRoles;
  import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
  import javax.servlet.annotation.HttpConstraint;
  import javax.servlet.annotation.ServletSecurity;
  
  @WebServlet("/securedUrlPattern")
  @ServletSecurity(@HttpConstraint(rolesAllowed = { "myRole" }))
  @DeclareRoles("myRole")
  public class SecuredServlet extends HttpServlet {
    //Rest of code
  }
  

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• If you prefer not to use the standard servlet, you can instead add a element containing a dummy URL pattern to the web.xml file. This notifies JBoss to create a default Authenticator. Failure to create a element in the web.xml file may result in the error message "No authenticator available for programmatic login".

Another reason we should choose JBOSS over Weblogic