I've got the Spring Security preauthentication sample configured and working with JBoss. The next step is to somehow get the user information into a flex client GUI.
What are some methods that will let me get the Authentication or UserDetails object that's created by spring-security on http access into the flex client? Since I'm logging in externally, I can't use channelset.login(), right? All the examples I've seen so far assume that the user logs in manually through the flex client, but the requirement is for container-based authentication.
Using flex3, spring 3.0.4, spring-security-3.0.3
Use PreAuthenticatedAuthenticationProvider as your authentication provider. Flex sessions will automatically map 1:1 with HTTP sessions, and you can access the authentication object using a session-scoped call to SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication()