"DC" <dinoch@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> sounds like a great place for defining an authentication interface for all
> those subsystems.
>
> public interface IAuth
> {
> public bool ValidateUser(string username, string passwordHash);
> // etc
> }
>
> Then just provide the implementations for the 4 flavors (java ws, sql,
> oracle, AD), then create your front-end webservice that delegates to one
> of those implementations. I guess you could specify the implementation to
> use, within web.config.
>
> [WebService]
> public class MyAuthnService
> {
> IAuth authService= // ??? figure out how to select among the
> implementations
>
> [WebMethod]
> public Login(string username, string passwordHash)
> {
> if (authnService.Validate(username,passwordHash)) {
> // use can log in...
> }
> }
> }
>
> -D
>
>
>
> "J-T" <J-T@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:uheUh4R9FHA.636@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>I need to create a webserivce which is able to talk to the following
>> components:
>>
>> 1) Another webservice which is written by java and talks to its own
>> backend
>> database to authenticate the users
>> 2) Directly talk to a sql server database containg a table to store
>> username
>> and passwords
>> 3) Directoly talks to an Oracle Databse containg a table to store
>> username
>> and passwords
>> 4) Can query our internal Active Directory to authenticate our
>> organization's staff
>>
>> The reason I choose a web service is that we want to create a sort of
>> signle
>> sign on startegy for all our applicationsm to use this webserivce to
>> authenticate the users against. my webserivce needs to be secure and also
>> vey expandable to span future added components.
>>
>> Is there soehting similar out there or can anyone give me some idea?
>>
>> I really appreciate it.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Lester J-T
>>
>>
>>
>
>

"J-T" <J-T@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>I need to create a webserivce which is able to talk to the following
> components:
>
> 1) Another webservice which is written by java and talks to its own
> backend
> database to authenticate the users
> 2) Directly talk to a sql server database containg a table to store
> username
> and passwords
> 3) Directoly talks to an Oracle Databse containg a table to store
> username
> and passwords
> 4) Can query our internal Active Directory to authenticate our
> organization's staff
>
> The reason I choose a web service is that we want to create a sort of
> signle
> sign on startegy for all our applicationsm to use this webserivce to
> authenticate the users against. my webserivce needs to be secure and also
> vey expandable to span future added components.
>
> Is there soehting similar out there or can anyone give me some idea?
>
> I really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Lester J-T
>
>
>