How to know current logged user

[dzerzhinsky]

Hi!
I need to create different behaviour for my beans depending on current logged user. For example, I need to return one kind of information for entity "owner" (user that created this entity) and another for other users.
Maybe I need to use Statefull Session Beans or smth. else to store this information.
Any ideas about how this stuf usualy creates will be very appreciated.

Oleg F. Yavorsky

[juha]

EJBContext.getCallerPrincipal() ?

-- Juha

[dzerzhinsky]

It's OK, but I could recieve only name of principal (interface Principal defines only one info method getName()) but I need also some custom information about current user. Maybe I must provide some implementation for Principal interface and then make type cast after getCallerPrincipal(), I don't know.
I think that this task stands realy offen for developers but I couldn't find answer.

[juha]

Depending on what that extra information is, you need to write your own login module that populates the thread's subject with the extra principals and then request the subject through org.jboss.security.SecurityAssociation.

-- Juha

[dzerzhinsky]

Juha, I realy appreciate for your help. Could you give me link to some example code to show me how to start, please.

Oleg F. Yavorsky

[juha]

I recommed the security section in JBoss Admin & Dev. guide.

-- Juha

[dzerzhinsky]

Thank you. As I understand I must go to my capital and buy this book (in my city we don't have good book shops with realy helpfull literature). But I think it's worth money