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App client security starts with specifying the CallbackHandler you want to use in the app client dd or (in Geronimo) in a similar element in the geronimo plan. In Geronimo this callback handler is run as soon as the client is activated, before the main class main method is called.

For a CallbackHandler, you need a security realm configured. This must be defined on the client. You can configure this in any plugin that will be started before the client app itself (due to being an ancestor of the client app) or in the client plan itself. Security realm configuration is exactly the same on the client and server, using the GenericSecurityRealm gbean.

Logging "in" to OpenEjb.

One common use of app clients is as ejb clients. In this case you will want to tell openejb who the client is (being run by) so that openejb can apply the authentication rules properly. You do this using the OpenejbRemoteLoginModule which uses the openejb protocol to log into the server and provide a token used in subsequent calls to openejb. Note that by default ejbd communication is unsecured and this token may be eavesdropped and used by others.

Here's a typical configuration for this scenario:

    <gbean name="remote-openejb-realm"
        class="org.apache.geronimo.security.realm.GenericSecurityRealm">
        <attribute name="realmName">remote-openejb-realm</attribute>
        <xml-reference name="LoginModuleConfiguration">
            <lc:login-config xmlns:lc="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/loginconfig-1.2">
                <lc:login-module control-flag="REQUIRED">
                    <lc:login-domain-name>remote-openejb-realm</lc:login-domain-name>
                    <lc:login-module-class>org.apache.geronimo.openejb.OpenejbRemoteLoginModule</lc:login-module-class>
                    <lc:option name="RemoteSecurityRealm">test-realm</lc:option>
                    <lc:option name="ServerURI">ejbd://localhost:4201</lc:option>
                </lc:login-module>
            </lc:login-config>
        </xml-reference>
        <reference name="ServerInfo">
            <name>ServerInfo</name>
        </reference>
    </gbean>

Note that there are two options: the server side security realm name to log into server-side, and the URI for the openejb listener.

With an appropriate CallbackHandler and a security realm such as this on the client, when the client is started the callback handler will obtain the required user name and password and this login module will log in to geronimo over the openejb ejbd protocol. The resulting token is stored in the client side Subject for use in subsequent ejb related calls to openejb.

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