CoreMedia's solution for this is a UserService which is triggered by the authentication forms.
The interface UserService describes operations for authentication and for changing the password.
Part of the delivery is a concrete UserService UserServiceImpl
which tries the authentication operation against the third-party commerce system.
For IBM WebSphere the WcsUserServiceImpl is an implementation of the interface CommerceUserService.
An instance for this is provided as a Spring bean with the id liveContextUserService.
The authentication is realized through a Spring security manager that is configured in file livecontext-cae-spring-security.xml.
The Spring security configuration of CoreMedia DXP 8 provides an AuthenticationProvider
that is implemented in the class LiveContextUserAuthenticationProvider. The provider looks up
the Elastic Social user for a given user name or email address. If the user exists, the credentials are checked using login method of the
CommerceUserService.
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