Question regarding using custom authentication with WCK

Hello all.

I am planing to use Slide for my project and as part of the 
requirements, I need to have a custom authentication. I noticed the 
existence of such hook in WCK and modified the FakeSessionManager.java 
to see how it works and it indeed worked as advertised. So far, I have 
hard-coded username/passwords in FakeSessionManager.java for testing 
purposes. Now I want to make a database call to validate a 
username/password and I was wondering if someone could give me a hint as 
how to initialize a  db connection there in FakeSessionManager.java (or 
any other implementation of SessionAuthenticationManager interface for 
that matter).

Many thanks in advance,
Ali.