I have a very straightforward problem that I haven't been able to answer.  We use a valve with our own custom authenticator class to authenticate the HttpRequest, and set a principal there.  This principal is not then automatically available in the EJB context via EJBContext.getCallerPrincipal - we continue to just get anonymous there.  I need to know how to propagate the principle we generate to the ejb context.  We are on AS 7.1.1.

Here is some of our config and code:

The valve is configured on our RestEasy endpoints.  In jboss-web.xml, we have:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<jboss-web>

    <context-root>rest/${rest.version.api}</context-root>

    <security-domain>sp</security-domain>

    <valve>

        <class-name>com.sheerid.authenticator.OAuthSPRedirectFormAuthenticator</class-name>

    </valve>

</jboss-web>

In OAuthSPRedirectFormAuthenticator.java:

public class OAuthSPRedirectFormAuthenticator extends ServiceProviderAuthenticator {

    private static final String HEADER_AUTHORIZATION = "Authorization";

    private static final Pattern PATTERN_BEARER_TOKEN = Pattern.compile("Bearer (.+)");

    private final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass());

    @Override

    public boolean authenticate(Request request, HttpServletResponse response, LoginConfig loginConfig) throws IOException {

        String authHeader = getAuthHeader(request);

        if (authHeader != null) {

            Matcher tokenMatcher = PATTERN_BEARER_TOKEN.matcher(authHeader);

            if (tokenMatcher.matches()) {

                String token = tokenMatcher.group(1);

                User user = getUserService().findUserByAccessToken(token);

                if (user != null) {

                    final String userName = user.getUsername();

                    request.setUserPrincipal(generatePrincipal(request, userName, RoleUtils.generateRoles(user)));

                    ((HttpServletRequest) request).setAttribute(SheerIDConstants.ACCOUNT_ID, user.getAccountId());

                    ((HttpServletRequest) request).setAttribute(SheerIDConstants.USER_ID, user.getId());

                    ((HttpServletRequest) request).setAttribute(SheerIDConstants.ACCESS_TOKEN, token);

                    SecurityClient client;

                    } else {

                        response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED);

                        return false;

                    }

            }

        }

        return super.authenticate(request, response, loginConfig);

     }

    }

And, by the way, even though we create a GenericPrincipal, our SessionContext in the ejb's returns a principal of class SimplePrinciple from sessionContext.getCallerPrincipal() that has a name of "anonymous".  Our beans are typically annotated as:

@Stateless

@SecurityDomain(value="sp")

@EJB(name = "java:global/UserServiceBean", beanInterface = UserServiceRemote.class)

@DeclareRoles({UserRole.ROLE_NAME_ACCOUNT_OWNER,

               UserRole.ROLE_NAME_STAFF,

               UserRole.ROLE_NAME_USER,

               UserRole.ROLE_NAME_USER_ADMIN})

public class UserServiceBean extends AbstractSessionBean implements UserServiceRemote{

.......

Again, any help in getting this working would be very much appreciated.  It seems like it should be really simple, but I haven't been able to find the key to this one.