Sample Source Code for Java Custom Authentication Provider

[Sing Tang]

Hi

We are looking at creating a custom java authentication provider. Does anyone know of any available free source code that we could possibly use to help us get started on this task? Basically what we are wanting to do is to have Cognos reports embedded into a web portal that was developed in .NET. The authentication source for this .NET portal is via the use of a database table as its directory structure, because of this, we require Cognos to authenticate off this same database table, hence the reason and need for a custom authentication provider. Can someone please advise whether this is a simple thing to do or whether it is even possible at all? Or will it require a great deal of development time and cost? And as stated above, if anyone has some sample code that they could possibly send across, it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Sing

[birliban]

Under [cognos installation dir]\sdk\java\AuthenticationProvider is a sdk sample... Maybe this will help you to get started :)

Edit: typo