Re: Form-based authentication with Glassfish

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Getting it to work directly would be great!  Having an alternative in 
your back pocket makes it completely possible.

Good luck!

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 3/1/2012 1:32 PM, BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jim,
>
> We do have ZendServer installed on another IBM i system which powers our
> website. So I could install it again or use the existing MySQL instance,
> but it would be nice to get things working directly with DB2, if possible.
> Seems like it should work unless the way Glassfish looks up credentials is
> somehow incompatible with either the JTOpen driver or DB2. If I can't get
> it working, then I may go the MySQL route or use a file realm for the time
> being.
>
> Thanks,
> Blake
>
>
>
> date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:03:18 -0600
> from: Jim Oberholtzer<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: [WEB400] Form-based authentication with Glassfish
>
> Blake,
>
> Do you have Zend Server with MySQL loaded on your System?  If so, you
> could consider using the DB/2 database engine for MySQL.  You'll get the
> best of both worlds, MySQL calls and DB/2 for storage and reliability.
> The MySQL and the DB/2 engine (written by IBM for Zend) is now supported
> by Zend since Oracle dropped the ongoing support for MySQL on IBM i.
> It takes about 30 minutes to load the engine, set the defaults and have
> it running.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
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