[jbossws-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBWS-2680) Authentication realm name hard-coded as "EJBServiceEndpointServlet Realm"

[Gerald Turner (JIRA)]

Authentication realm name hard-coded as "EJBServiceEndpointServlet Realm"
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                 Key: JBWS-2680
                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBWS-2680
             Project: JBoss Web Services
          Issue Type: Feature Request
      Security Level: Public (Everyone can see)
          Components: jbossws-native
    Affects Versions: jbossws-native-3.0.5
         Environment: JBossAS 4.2.3 with JBossWS 3.0.5
            Reporter: Gerald Turner
            Priority: Optional


An EJB3 endpoint defined with annotation @WebContext(authMethod="BASIC") results in JBossWS generating web.xml metadata equivalent to:

  <login-config>
    <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
    <realm-name>EJBServiceEndpointServlet Realm</realm-name>
  </login-config>

On one hand this is perfectly acceptable as the realm-name is just a vanity configuration parameter.  However there are scenarios where it would be desirable to allow the application to override the default value: we migrated from another web services stack to JBossWS (was JAXWS-RI), some clients of our web services had explicitly configured their HTTP authentication on their end to match on realm name (one instance was Perl SOAP::Lite), quite the same way a web browser stores HTTP authentication along with the realm name such if the realm name changes, the authentication is invalidated - but since these are machines talking to each other rather than a web browser, it becomes a nightmare to debug why a client began receiving 401 errors after our upgrade.

It would be nice if the org.jboss.wsf.spi.annotation.WebContext annotation had a realmName parameter.

I attempted to work on a patch, however I'm confused by how many copies of WebAppGeneratorDeploymentAspect.java there seem to be under the jbossws/container and jbossws/framework subversion trees.

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