IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development Essentials

Form-based authentication

Form-based authentication is similar to a web application in which the users have to fill out a login form in order to access a secured or protected resource. Worklight provides a similar authentication mechanism in which the server returns the HTML of a login form whenever an application tries to access a protected resource.

The Worklight application that uses form-based authentication must use a login module to validate the received credentials.

Security realm

Declare the security realm with the name myFormBasedAppRealm as follows:

<realm name="myFormBasedAppRealm" loginModule="myFormBasedAppLoginModule">
  <className>com.worklight.core.auth.ext.FormBasedAuthenticator</className>
</realm>

The login module

Now define the login ...