[undertow-dev] AuthenticationMechanismFactory

[Anil Saldhana]

On 12/13/2013 09:55 AM, Marc Boorshtein wrote:
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>     Have an enum on the auth method (Authmethod.FORM, AuthMethod.DIGEST,
>     AuthMethod.BASIC, AuthMethod.JASPI) (The web.xml login-method is
>     just a
>     string) and then use the addFirstAuthenticationMechanism() or
>     setAuthenticationMechanism api to install this adhoc low demand jaspi
>     mechanism. Users should be able to provide arbitrary string to the API
>     method.
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> +1 I've been following this discussion and have written authentication 
> systems for JBoss, Tomcat, Weblogic, IIS, Apache, etc and having to 
> constrain to one of a few pre-defined methods is beyond frustrating.
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> Thanks
> Marc

Hi Marc,
   API design is a hard science anyway.  There are enough theses written 
on the design, update and compatibility of APIs over the years.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Evolving_Java-based_APIs

I cannot claim that I understand it completely myself. :)

Regards,
Anil
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