Life cycle of Tomcat authenticator

[acids76]

Hello, i have done my own authenticator that works fine with standalone Tomcat and with embedded Tomcat in Jboss. I would like to know more about authenticator, above all what happens when an authenticator exits returning "true" or "false" as value. In few words, i would like to know its life cycle, from the activation to the end: is it possibile to have this information or i haven't hopes to know? Thanks...

[asafm]

I'm not sure I understand your question: You want to know what happens inside an authenticator?
I don't know much about after the value returns, besides that the next valves kicks in, and allow access to the protected web resource. What else do you need to know there?