Delirious

..my mind goes racing around and around and around it chases it's tail and starts all over again, endlessly. That's what the fever & delerium of this latest flu is like for me.

Now, that its passed, I draw your attention to yet another way we could, as a group of web-application developers, handle authentication & authorization for all those web applications we're sure to build before the next millenium.

This one differs from the one I concocted a few weeks ago, it's based on OpenSSO:

• A&A is handled completely outside your app, you lockdown URLs by User, Role & Permission
  • It depends upon your using RESTful URLs, you get these out-of-the-box w/Grails
• A&A is handled by Sun's OpenSSO product
• Like the name says single-signon for all your web apps
• You don't even have to write a login page
• There is, of course, a Grails plugin

Here's some links to a bit of OpenSSO usage:

• 4 ways to integrate with OpenSSO e.g. w/RubyOnRails
• w/JavaFX
• w/Grails
• 4-hour lab from Sun on config'ing OpenSSO

Fever time!