Java Web Application: Using a custom realm

Question

I\'m writing a java web application which need to perform login through a webservice. Of course, none of the realms supplied with the application server I\'m using (glassfish v2

Answer 1

Check out Sun's article on this subject.

I never actually did this myself, but I'm pretty confident each AS gives you an option to register new realms (security domains) on it.

It probably won't be 100% portable, and for each AS you might need a different config XML, but basically, there is no reason for the code to be any different.