Hi there,
I'm hoping that someone can help. I have 2 seam applications (JBoss 4.3) and currently each has a seperate login screen. However, I would like to log into one of the apps and, with a hyperlink, call the other application, passing across the Identity to allow me to auto-authenticate on the other side.
I can successfully call a servlet on the second application using:
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().redirect(url)
However, I can't figure out how to pass the Identity across and all attempts have resulted in a null object in the servlet. I've tried doing the following when redirecting to the second app servlet:
String url = "http://myapp/appname/signon.xhtml";
FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) context.getExternalContext().getRequest();
request.setAttribute("identity", identity);
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().setRequest(request);
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().redirect(url);
And then on the servlet I try to retrieve the Identity:
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
Identity identity = (Identity)request.getAttribute("identity");
If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful. Obviously, if there's a better Seam way of doing this, I'd love to know too.
Cheers, Lister
