[jcifs] 1.3.x filter authentication problem

[John.Baker at barclayscapital.com]

> > It would be great if the jcifs library allows instance 
> oriented configurations.
> 
> Note that considering that all JCIFS properties are 
> semantically global and static I don't think it's that 
> "great". Meaning between two instances of JCIFS, there should 
> be no properties that would really need to be different. The 
> only reason this came up is because of the issue with the 
> HTTP Filter not supporting NTLMv2. But again, that is due to 
> a fundamental problem with how the Filter works and therefore 
> it is of no concern since it is being removed.

The filter is not the topic of discussion.  The user is referring to the
fact that jcifs can only be given one configuration within the lifetime
of a VM.  Thread based solutions are very unpleasant (*) and it needs to
be as easy as this:

<bean id="my.jcifs" class="...">
  <property name="domainController" value="mars" />   
  <property name="logLevel" value="debug" />
  [ etc ]
</bean>

I'm sure there are business requirements that make this an entirely
valid point.


John

(*) Anyone who's worked with BEA's JMS Thread bound user credential
implementation will agree.  Nice idea, extremely tedious in practice.
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