Form-based authentication and JSF

Question

I am trying to use a form-based authentication in Tomcat 6, and from what I understand the page that contains the login form can not be a JSF page.
The problem I'm having with this is that I need the client's username and password accessible from my backing bean, but I don't know how to put them there from a standard JSP.
Before all this, I had a simple login form with username/password fields that were bound to a bean, and a button that executed a bean method that would perform the login procedure, retrieve the client's data from the DB and create a Client object in the session to be accessible throughout the application. Now, I need to use container managed access control with form-based authentication, and I know how to set it up but don't know how to create the Client object if the container does all the authentication and I never even get a hold of a username/password combination let alone the rest of the client's data.
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

alf.redo wrote:
...following article: [j2ee_security_a_jsf_based_login_form|http://groundside.com/blog/DuncanMills.php?title=j2ee_security_a_jsf_based_login_form]
This is exactly the solution I am planning to use. It is good to know there are others who have decided to go that way.
Thanks