Security Principal Problem, local and remote

[Aps Raps]

I have a web application running on the local server, accessing EJBs on a remote server. The local principal needed to access the web application is not the same as the remote user credentials.
1. Before invoking an ejb method from a delegate, I create the InitalContext with the required remote credentials and invoke the EJB.
2. After invocation I close the remote context explicitely so as to access my web application.

If I dont close the remote context, my web app stops working. If I close the remote context, I have to do a get InitialContext before each EJB method invocation and this can be expensive.

Can local and remote context co-exist? Is there some way by which I can avoid getting the initial context each time in the delegate? Would appreciate any help here.

[Rovas Kram]

I think you can just change the environment before and after you call the remote server - without closing the context.


Hashtable env = Context.getEnvironment();
env.put("java.naming.security.principal", "YourPrincipal");