InfoCenter Home > 5.4: Overview: Using programmatic and form loginsThis section describes the use of login specifications in WebSphere Application Server. When Java enterprise-bean client applications require the user to provide identifying information, the writer of the application must collect that information and authenticate the user. The work of the programmer can be broadly classified in terms of where the actual user authentication is performed:
Users of Web applications can be prompted for authentication data in many ways. The login-config element in the Web application's deployment descriptor defines the mechanism used to collect this information. Programmers who want to customize login procedures, rather than relying on general-purpose devices like a 401 dialog window in a browser, can use a form based login to provide an application-specific HTML form for collecting login information.
No authentication occurs unless WebSphere global security is
enabled. Additionally, if you want to use form-based login for
Web applications, you must specify "FORM" in the |
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