[opencms-dev] OpenCMS and realms

[Padraic Hannon]

I'm working on getting the roller blog engine integrated as an opencms 
module. There are two items which I need to tackle to get that to work:

1) Convincing roller to store its blog contents in opencms
2) create a single signon for both apps

What I'd like to do is use form based auth to log a user in to both 
systems. My notion is to use CmsJspLoginBean to actually handle the 
login and if it is successful to have everything set correctly so that 
request.getUserPrincipal(), etc. work correctly. I am thinking of 
modifying the login method of the CmsJspLoginBean to return true/false 
based on the user login, and then calling CmsRequestContext to get the 
user information into the J2EE realm. Other than I would have to modify 
the login screens to use the form based login for web apps.

This is all hypothetical, as I am brand new to opencmsI was wondering if 
anyone had a any pointers for me.

thanks,
Paddy Hannon