How to implement a login page in a GWT app?

Question

My WebApp needs to authenticate user before allowing any sort of access. The scenario I\'m trying to implement is a login page with username and password fields. Once user h

Answer 1

Have you looked at this page ?

It describes how to do the following:

• Create a 'login' page that is based on user/password authentication.
• Store this data in a secure fashion on your server.
• Allow users to 'remain logged in' for as long as you want so they don't have to enter their user name and password every time.
• Make 'auto-complete' features of most modern browsers work with your GWT's login page. Discussion on adding more security with either HTTPS or fancy hashing algorithm.

Answer 2

I'm not sure how well secure your application has to be... but I would suggest leaving that piece of work to spring security.

You could make a regular login.html page which would, upon successful login, redirect user to the "real" gwt app.

Check out this article: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/articles/security_for_gwt_applications.html

Answer 3

Not tailored directly for GWT (can still integrate with it), this is a great tutorial for implementing a secure login system.

http://drdobbs.com/web-development/231002659