Custom authentication

[John Eric Hamacher]

Hello:

I have a web service which requires authentication which is not JDBC or LDAP. I believe I have to write my own "authentication provider" to do this. However, I can not find a straightforward guide out there for doing this. I have small pieces of information. If anybody has a reference for this I would appreciate it.


Thanks
Eric

[John Eric Hamacher]

By the way, I'm using Spring 3.0.5

[Mark Spritzler]

See if this helps

http://www.theserverside.com/tip/-Spring-Security-Customizing-Your-User-and-Authorization-in

I wrote that article, where I customized the lookup of the user information by creating my own UserDetailsService implementation.

Mark

[John Eric Hamacher]

Thanks Mark, this is great! I haven't tried it yet but it seems to be what I need. And its a lot simpler than I thought. I don't know why I can't find this information elsewhere.