Custome Authenticators Defined At Web Application Level

[dlofthouse]

I know that as custom authenticators are implemented as a valve they can be added to a context.xml deployed with the web application - however looking at the jboss-service.xml of the jboss-web.deployer I see the following comment: -

You can configure a set of authenticators keyed by http-auth method used. This
will apply the same set of authenticators across all web applications. You can
override the set of authenticators at the web application level by adding

<authenticators>

element to the respective jboss-web.xml

Looking through the dtds for jboss-web for 4.0, 4.2 and 5.0 I can't see if this is possible, also looking at the testsuite I have not seen any deployments that have deployed authenticators this way. Is this feature actually available? If so do we have any examples of how to use it?

[anil.saldhana]

You can
 | override the set of authenticators at the web application level by adding
 | <authenticators> element to the respective jboss-web.xml

This is not possible as far as I remember. May be Remy changed something to make it possible.

[dlofthouse]

Thanks I have asked Remy for his input, if this is not supported I will get the descriptors updated that say it is supported.

[mikala]

Is JBOSS 5.0.0GA supports custom authenticators defined in jboss-web.xml ?

How to define custom authenticators in ear in AS5.0.0GA ?