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'**' role incorrectly returns false from isUserInRole when user is authenticated

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      When authentication has taken place in a web application such that HttpServletRequest#getUserPrincipal does not return null, testing for role '**' using HttpServletRequest#isUserInRole returns false.

      This is not correct. According to Servlet 13.3:

      If the role-name of the security-role to be tested is “**”, 
      and the application has NOT declared an application security-role with 
      role-name “**”, isUserInRole must only return true if the user has been
      authenticated;
      

      This is demonstrated by the following test:

      https://github.com/arjantijms/javaee7-samples/blob/master/jacc/contexts/src/test/java/org/javaee7/jacc/contexts/SubjectFromPolicyContextTest.java#L76

            sdouglas1@redhat.com Stuart Douglas
            arjan.tijms@gmail.com Arjan Tijms (Inactive)
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