challenge: how to login a user from a custom Tag?

Hey. The question is in the title.

This is the doEndTag() function inside a TagSupport implentation class :

publicint doEndTag(){

String j_username = pageContext.getRequest().getParameter("j_username");

String j_password = pageContext.getRequest().getParameter("j_password");

// HOW TO USE THESE 2 STRINGS FOR LOGING THE USER?

return EVAL_PAGE;

}

I can do basic authenticaton (I'm using tomcat btw), it's fine but I need to do this because the client is a Flash and not an html page. Any help is welcome, thanks!

[807 byte] By [bestama] at [2007-10-3 2:35:26]