Any one implement LDAP Authorization in Struts2?

[muruganandam nagarajan]

Hi all,

I am new to the Struts2 Framework. I need to implement LDAP Authorization logic in to my existing web application using Struts2 framework. Basically I need to verify user Id existence in LDAP and forward to Login page if success.

I would really appreciate some feedback/help here.

[Shobhit Khandelwal]

I faced the similar problem some time back and found solution by following instruction of this tutorial(video presentation) http://alextch.members.winisp.net/TomcatAndAD/TomcatAndAD.html. You may also find some help with this tutorial.

[Joe Ess]

If you want to do authorization yourself, JNDI makes it possible to bounce credentials off an LDAP server.
JAAS may be another option, though I've never used it.
I prefer to rely on the container for authentication and authorization. You will have to look at your server's documentation for how to configure it to talk to the LDAP server. Here is the relevant documentation for Tomcat. You then use your web.xml to declare what security roles have access to your application. See here for more on that.