Pass the User/Principles from Web Container to EJB Container

[djsnowsill]

Can anybody tell me if the user/principal details should be passed automatically from the web tier to the ejb tier as it doesn't appear to work for me.

Some details:

I am using JBoss 3.2.1 with Jetty as the web container and have succesfully configured the web container to authenticate using form based authentication against a custom login module by modifying the usual files ( ie. web.xml, jboss-web.xml, login-config.xml). I have also succesfully logged in against the secured ejb's from a java client but when one of my struts actions calls a secured ejb it fails with principal=null.

Any help would be appreciated. If neccessary I can post all the usual config files

[spacerocker]

I'm having the same problem with JBoss 3.2.2 and Tomcat. I expected the principal to be passed down to the EJB tier automatically, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Any help much appreciated.

[juha]

As long as you're running an integrated web container the principal and credentials are passed down to EJB tier from all protected web resources.

-- Juha