[Cosmo-dev] breaking the ui into separate webapps

[Brian Moseley]

On 11/7/06, Vinubalaji Gopal <vinu at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 11:02 -0800, Brian Moseley wrote:

> > the webapps would  all have access to the same database through j2ee.

> j2ee?
> I think that it should be possible with some other technology. Isn't it
> possible for all the webapps to use the same database, even if they are
> distributed across different machines?

of course. what i meant was jdbc connections available via j2ee data
sources available to each webapp through jndi.

> > it would also require us to set up single sign-on in the snarf bundle

> I don't like this idea that much and think there should be a better way
> of doing this. Isn't it possible to share the security and split the
> functionality?

with an external single sign-on system, definitely. if all webapps are
in one jvm, probably, with some acegi security customization to reuse
a single jsessionid cookie for all of the ui webapps (until that
wonderful sunny day somewhere in the future where we are sessionless).