In particular, I am trying to figure out what is the best way to integrate JForum with our CROWD SSO application for authentication and 'open symphony' API for user/group control. OpenSymphony API can internally talk to crowd via
soap client to fetch users, groups, roles etc from crowd repository. So, no problem here
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I can probably implement your LoginAuthenticator to talk to Crowd via its soap client. However, I need a little more information about how to get users/groups etc into JForum with out going through your DAO's or direct sql calls. I also need to prevent the user registration from JForum as we have a seperate/extended process for it. Ability interact with OpenSymphony API is nice and saves time, but it is not a must as I can directly talk to crowd via its soap client. We are planning to deploy JForum as an independent app along with our other applications (confluence, jira and other custom apps) and crowd sso application (which is also a war file). Also how difficult is to use our own login and customize a url for logout - we need to have a uniform login page for all our apps and also set custom session cookies. Do I need set some session variables or cookies so that JForum pages/code can figure out the user is already logged in?
If you already have a way to support this, great. Or, I am willing to extend/implement it myself with your help/suggestions.
JForum looks like a wonderful product and as I am browsing through your source code, it appears like very well architected. Great job!
Thanks in advance.
[originally posted on jforum.net by bbandlamudi]
