Question

I want to create with JSF a Login Form which also creates a new UserPrincipal in External Context.

What do I have to do when I want to create a new UserPrincipal in External FacesContext?

I use WebSphere Application Server 8 with JSF 2.

I want to make something like this working:

FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
Principal principal = context.getExternalContext().getUserPrincipal();

Best Regards
Veote

Answer 1

As far as I know, I dont think we have to explicity create UserPrincipal.You must authenticate the user with some mechanism (like JAAS / NTLM / SPNEGO) so that container creates it for you in its javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest implementation