15.3. Authentication
Seam Security provides Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) based authorization features, providing a robust and highly configurable API for handling user authentication. If your authentication needs are not this complex, Seam also offers a simplified authentication method.
15.3.1. Configuring an Authenticator component
Note
If you use Seam's Identity Management features, you can skip this section — it is not necessary to create an authenticator component.
Seam's simplified authentication method uses a built-in JAAS login module (
SeamLoginModule) to delegate authentication to one of your own Seam components. (This module requires no additional configuration files, and comes pre-configured within Seam.) With this, you can write an authentication method with the entity classes provided by your own application, or authenticate through another third-party provider. Configuring this simplified authentication requires the identity component to be configured in components.xml
<components xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/components"
xmlns:core="http://jboss.com/products/seam/core"
xmlns:security="http://jboss.com/products/seam/security"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation=
"http://jboss.com/products/seam/components
http://jboss.com/products/seam/components-2.2.xsd
http://jboss.com/products/seam/security
http://jboss.com/products/seam/security-2.2.xsd">
<security:identity authenticate-method="#{authenticator.authenticate}"/>
</components>
#{authenticator.authenticate} is a method binding that indicates the authenticate method of the authenticator component will be used to authenticate the user.
