I would like to use form-based authentication as outlined in the book JavaServer Faces (O’REILLY). But instead of letting Tomcat manage the users, I would like to manage them myself: store them in a database etc. Can anyone give me a few pointers?
Thanks in advance!
simple example
http://www.developer.com/java/data/article.php/3335001/BASIC-and-FORM-based-Authorization-in-Your-Web-Application.htm
Apache Documentation
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/realm-howto.html#Standard_Realm_Implementations