Description Markus Knauer 2013-03-13 06:42:09 EDT

In many of the commercial RAP applications I've seen developers (including myself) using the authenticated remote user of the request for getting additional user data, accessing database systems, etc.:

  String user = RWT.getRequest().getRemoteUser();

Another way is via getUserPrincipal().

Both ways work if and only if the user has been authenticated, but it is not possible to achieve this

- when a RAP application is launched with Jetty by the RAP Tools launch configuration and
- when s.o. writes tests and needs a fake remote user.

My current thinking is that it could be helpful if a user could set a fake user in these cases.