Custom Authentication

[dhill]

Is there a way to use custom authentication within jboss so that all request will have a principal assocaited with them, I am trying to get around the j2ee security constraint, what I mean is I don't want to have to use this method, I would like to just call a JBossAuthenticator in my login portlet and then be authenticated.

[smolin]

that's the same I want to get working in my app as well.
any help really appreciated. I found how to login using JASS, but after that my web session is still unathenticated!!!!

see:
UsernamePasswordHandler handler = null;
handler = new UsernamePasswordHandler(getUserName(), getUserPassword());
try {
LoginContext lc = new LoginContext("webshop", handler);
lc.login();

System.out.println("user: " + FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRemoteUser());
} catch (LoginException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}