Retrieve current Windows user in Java EE web application for Single Sign On purposes

Question

I am doing a Java EE web application that requires Single Sign On with Active Directory.

The application will no longer prompt for a username and password. The authe

Answer 1

SPNEGO is an open source project that provides a servlet filter that provies Integrated Windows Authentication.

if your organization uses java based web/application servers, and you prefer Kerberos/SPNEGO instead of NTLM as the authentication protocol, and you would rather have a Java Servlet Filter (JSR-53) based implementation instead of a container specific authentication module (JSR-196), and you want SSO (no username/password prompt), then this project may be of some interest to you.

It has instructions for configuring both Tomcat and Glassfish.