Custom Glassfish Security Realm does not work (unable to find LoginModule)

Question

I\'m trying to get a Custom Security Realm in Glassfish working (i tried 3.0.1 final and 3.1 B33). I read nearly all tutorials about this, but it doesn\'t not work on my Sys

Answer 1

Got it. Seems like newer Glassfish versions require that the Security Realm and the LoginModule are packaged as an OSGi module, which should then be copied into glassfish/modules.

Therefore i changed my pom.xml to create an OSGi bundle, which contains both the CustomRealm and the CustomLoginModule.

Here it is:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
    <artifactId>security.realm</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>bundle</packaging>

    <name>Custom JDBCRealm OSGi</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>security</artifactId>
            <version>3.1-b33</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.6</source>
                    <target>1.6</target>
                    <optimise>true</optimise>
                    <debug>true</debug>
                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <configuration>
                    <instructions>
                        <Export-Package>
                            ${project.groupId}.${project.artifactId};version=${project.version}
                        </Export-Package>
                        <Import-Package>
                            com.sun.appserv.security,
                            org.glassfish.security.common,
                            com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.realm,
                            com.sun.enterprise.security.auth.login.common,
                            java.util,
                            javax.security.auth
                        </Import-Package>
                    </instructions>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

EDIT

Found a good additional resource here: http://blogs.oracle.com/nithya/entry/modularized_osgi_custom_realms_in , where the Realm and it's LoginModule is build as a hk2-jar.

Answer 2

This was driving me crazy, I've finally cracked creating a custom realm in glassfish 3.1, turns out that of course its really easy. The following documentation is the key: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18930_01/html/821-2418/beabo.html ... note that it has changed somewhat from the answers above.