Re: User Registration and Authentication for a Tomcat webapp?

From: Tod Olson <tod_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:33:59 +0000
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On protecting using Shib to protect a servlet under Tomcat:

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPJavaInstall

-Tod


On Dec 2, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Simon Spero <sesuncedu_at_GMAIL.COM>
 wrote:

> Atlassian Crowd (if you have jira or confluence you may already have this
> licensed).
> 
> SocialAuth (supports, but relies on oauth sources).
> 
> Apache Shiro (requires external account provider- see demo).
> 
> Shibboleth?
> On Dec 1, 2013 4:09 PM, "LeVan,Ralph" <levan_at_oclc.org> wrote:
> 
>> OCLC Research is building an ILL Cost Calculator.  We'll be asking
>> institutions to enter information about their ILL practices and costs and
>> then supporting mechanisms for generating reports based on that data.
>> (Dennis Massie is leading this work in Research and he really should have
>> a page about this project that I could point your at.)
>> 
>> I'm writing the part that collects the information.  I need a light-weight
>> framework that will let users register themselves and then subsequently
>> authenticate themselves while engaged in an iterative process of entering
>> the necessary data for the calculator.
>> 
>> I'm looking for suggestions for that framework.  I'm hoping for something
>> in java that can be integrated into a tomcat webapp environment, but it
>> wouldn't hurt me to stretch a little if there's something else out there
>> you think I should be trying.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Ralph
>> 
>> Ralph LeVan
>> Sr. Research Scientist
>> OCLC Research
>> 
Received on Mon Dec 02 2013 - 12:35:09 EST