twittemb- If you have a JAAS LoginModule setup that is doing the authentication, You can programatically extract the LoginContext from the environment and invoke the authenticate method on the Realm. You can also consider using a CustomAuthenticator that extends one of the four BASIC,FORM,CERT,etc depending on your Authentication method instead of a Valve Thanks Sohil View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3959680#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...