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org.apache.catalina.authenticator
public class: SingleSignOn [javadoc | source]
java.lang.Object
   org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase
      org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn

All Implemented Interfaces:
    SessionListener, Lifecycle, Valve, MBeanRegistration, Contained

Direct Known Subclasses:
    ClusterSingleSignOn

A Valve that supports a "single sign on" user experience, where the security identity of a user who successfully authenticates to one web application is propogated to other web applications in the same security domain. For successful use, the following requirements must be met:
Field Summary
protected  Map cache    The cache of SingleSignOnEntry instances for authenticated Principals, keyed by the cookie value that is used to select them. 
protected static  String info    Descriptive information about this Valve implementation. 
protected  LifecycleSupport lifecycle    The lifecycle event support for this component. 
protected  Map reverse    The cache of single sign on identifiers, keyed by the Session that is associated with them. 
protected static final  StringManager sm    The string manager for this package. 
protected  boolean started    Component started flag. 
Fields inherited from org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase:
container,  containerLog,  info,  next,  sm,  domain,  oname,  mserver,  controller
Method from org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn Summary:
addLifecycleListener,   associate,   deregister,   deregister,   findLifecycleListeners,   getCookieDomain,   getInfo,   getRequireReauthentication,   invoke,   lookup,   reauthenticate,   register,   removeLifecycleListener,   removeSession,   sessionEvent,   setCookieDomain,   setRequireReauthentication,   start,   stop,   toString,   update
Methods from org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase:
backgroundProcess,   createObjectName,   event,   getContainer,   getContainerName,   getController,   getDomain,   getInfo,   getNext,   getObjectName,   getParentName,   invoke,   postDeregister,   postRegister,   preDeregister,   preRegister,   setContainer,   setController,   setNext,   setObjectName,   toString
Methods from java.lang.Object:
equals,   getClass,   hashCode,   notify,   notifyAll,   toString,   wait,   wait,   wait
Method from org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn Detail:
 public  void addLifecycleListener(LifecycleListener listener) 
    Add a lifecycle event listener to this component.
 protected  void associate(String ssoId,
    Session session) 
    Associate the specified single sign on identifier with the specified Session.
 protected  void deregister(String ssoId) 
    Deregister the specified single sign on identifier, and invalidate any associated sessions.
 protected  void deregister(String ssoId,
    Session session) 
    Deregister the specified session. If it is the last session, then also get rid of the single sign on identifier
 public LifecycleListener[] findLifecycleListeners() 
    Get the lifecycle listeners associated with this lifecycle. If this Lifecycle has no listeners registered, a zero-length array is returned.
 public String getCookieDomain() 
    Returns the optional cookie domain. May return null.
 public String getInfo() 
    Return descriptive information about this Valve implementation.
 public boolean getRequireReauthentication() 
    Gets whether each request needs to be reauthenticated (by an Authenticator downstream in the pipeline) to the security Realm, or if this Valve can itself bind security info to the request based on the presence of a valid SSO entry without rechecking with the Realm
 public  void invoke(Request request,
    Response response) throws IOException, ServletException 
    Perform single-sign-on support processing for this request.
 protected SingleSignOnEntry lookup(String ssoId) 
    Look up and return the cached SingleSignOn entry associated with this sso id value, if there is one; otherwise return null.
 protected boolean reauthenticate(String ssoId,
    Realm realm,
    Request request) 
    Attempts reauthentication to the given Realm using the credentials associated with the single sign-on session identified by argument ssoId.

    If reauthentication is successful, the Principal and authorization type associated with the SSO session will be bound to the given Request object via calls to Request.setAuthType() and Request.setUserPrincipal()

 protected  void register(String ssoId,
    Principal principal,
    String authType,
    String username,
    String password) 
    Register the specified Principal as being associated with the specified value for the single sign on identifier.
 public  void removeLifecycleListener(LifecycleListener listener) 
    Remove a lifecycle event listener from this component.
 protected  void removeSession(String ssoId,
    Session session) 
    Remove a single Session from a SingleSignOn. Called when a session is timed out and no longer active.
 public  void sessionEvent(SessionEvent event) 
    Acknowledge the occurrence of the specified event.
 public  void setCookieDomain(String cookieDomain) 
    Sets the domain to be used for sso cookies.
 public  void setRequireReauthentication(boolean required) 
    Sets whether each request needs to be reauthenticated (by an Authenticator downstream in the pipeline) to the security Realm, or if this Valve can itself bind security info to the request, based on the presence of a valid SSO entry, without rechecking with the Realm If this property is false (the default), this Valve will bind a UserPrincipal and AuthType to the request if a valid SSO entry is associated with the request. It will not notify the security Realm of the incoming request.

    This property should be set to true if the overall server configuration requires that the Realm reauthenticate each request thread. An example of such a configuration would be one where the Realm implementation provides security for both a web tier and an associated EJB tier, and needs to set security credentials on each request thread in order to support EJB access.

    If this property is set to true, this Valve will set flags on the request notifying the downstream Authenticator that the request is associated with an SSO session. The Authenticator will then call its reauthenticateFromSSO method to attempt to reauthenticate the request to the Realm, using any credentials that were cached with this Valve.

    The default value of this property is false, in order to maintain backward compatibility with previous versions of Tomcat.

 public  void start() throws LifecycleException 
    Prepare for the beginning of active use of the public methods of this component. This method should be called after configure(), and before any of the public methods of the component are utilized.
 public  void stop() throws LifecycleException 
    Gracefully terminate the active use of the public methods of this component. This method should be the last one called on a given instance of this component.
 public String toString() 
    Return a String rendering of this object.
 protected  void update(String ssoId,
    Principal principal,
    String authType,
    String username,
    String password) 
    Updates any SingleSignOnEntry found under key ssoId with the given authentication data.

    The purpose of this method is to allow an SSO entry that was established without a username/password combination (i.e. established following DIGEST or CLIENT_CERT authentication) to be updated with a username and password if one becomes available through a subsequent BASIC or FORM authentication. The SSO entry will then be usable for reauthentication.

    NOTE: Only updates the SSO entry if a call to SingleSignOnEntry.getCanReauthenticate() returns false; otherwise, it is assumed that the SSO entry already has sufficient information to allow reauthentication and that no update is needed.