Multiple Domains

[etaham]

Over the past week I have been reading a tremendous amount about jboss seam and how to use it. I'm very interested in using it for a new project I'm starting soon, but I'm couldn't find any documentation or examples described what I need.

The easiest way to described my project is a large site that spans multiple domains. The system will need to have unified login - meaning one login for a user will work across all of the sites/domains. What makes this complex is that a user can have different roles in each site. For example, userA might be an admin in www.sitea.com, but only be a moderator in www.siteb.com.

My question is as follows, is there a way to inject/set a site_id accessible by beans and security rule (drules)? This way when a user tries accessing a function I could check for the following tuple is a user has a roleA for siteA, or when a user goes to www.siteA.com/index.seam it will know to load with index for siteA and not siteB.

Is this possible using the seam framework? standalone jsf? Any ideas on how I could implement it? maybe using a phaselistener?

Thank you,
Eli

[pmuir]

You should be able to get the domain name in use using

FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().get...

You can then use this to know which site the user is visiting for your login.

[etaham]

Thank you for your reply.
Follow up question: Can I access FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext() within a drule security rule?
Thanks,
Eli

[pmuir]

If you are inside a faces request, you should be able to. But why don't you have a go?

[etaham]

I will.
Thank you.