org.torweg.pulse.accesscontrol.authentication
Class AuthenticationAdapter

java.lang.Object
  org.torweg.pulse.accesscontrol.authentication.AuthenticationAdapter

public final class AuthenticationAdapter
extends java.lang.Object

is an AuthenticationAdapter to allow a login to pulse from an external source.

Version:

$Revision: 1380 $

Author:

Thomas Weber

Method Summary

static boolean

authenticate(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, java.lang.String username, java.lang.String password) tries to authenticate the given user.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

authenticate

public static boolean authenticate(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                                   java.lang.String username,
                                   java.lang.String password)

tries to authenticate the given user.

Parameters:

request - the request

username - the name of the user

password - the user's password

Returns:

true, if the user could be authenticated. Otherwise false.