Custom Authenticator, for ldap question

I want to write a custom authenticator to look up user information from LDAP for authentication and authorization. Can I write the class to implement ServletAuthenticator instead of extending AbstractAuthenticator? AbstractAuthenticator methods are all deprecated. Also it seems there's little or no flexibility since none of the application context parameters are accessible. This makes it hard to change look up parameters for ldap.

If the answer to the first question is a yes then I have a second question. What method of ServletAuthenticator will get invoked by the servlet engine for the purpose of authentication.

thanks in advance for your response
Received on Thu 04 Apr 2002 00:20:20 -0800