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How to implement a custom identity model for JBoss Portal?
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/prisemut">Thomas Raab</a> in <i>JBoss Portal</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/637123#637123">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hello!</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I want to implement a custom identity model in order to connect to a proprietary webservice providing user information.</p><p>So I followed the instructions on <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.7.1/referenceGuide/html/identity.html">http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.7.1/referenceGuide/html/identity.html</a>.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I am using JBoss Portal 2.7.2 with JBoss AS 4.2.3; java version 1.6.0_29</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Here are the steps that I've done:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Creating a new maven project, pom.xml snippet:</p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-xml">
<span class="jive-xml-tag"><dependency></span>
     <span class="jive-xml-tag"><groupId></span>org.jboss.portal.identity<span class="jive-xml-tag"></groupId></span>
     <span class="jive-xml-tag"><artifactId></span>identity-identity<span class="jive-xml-tag"></artifactId></span>
     <span class="jive-xml-tag"><version></span>1.0.7<span class="jive-xml-tag"></version></span>
     <span class="jive-xml-tag"><scope></span>provided<span class="jive-xml-tag"></scope></span>
<span class="jive-xml-tag"></dependency></span>
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Implementation of the User interface:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code">
package com.mycompany.myIdentity;
import org.jboss.portal.identity.IdentityException;
import org.jboss.portal.identity.User;
public class MyUserImpl implements User {
...
}
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Packaged to a jar file and deployed (= copied) to </p><p>\jboss-portal-2.7.2\server\default\deploy\jboss-portal.sar\lib.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Changes in \jboss-portal-2.7.2\server\default\deploy\jboss-portal.sar\conf\identity\identity-config.xml, </p><p>replacing the existing User-type module with the new one (it doesn't need any config):</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-xml">
<span class="jive-xml-tag"><module></span>
     <span class="jive-xml-tag"><type></span>User<span class="jive-xml-tag"></type></span>
     <span class="jive-xml-tag"><service-name></span>portal:service=Module,type=User<span class="jive-xml-tag"></service-name></span>
     <span class="jive-xml-tag"><class></span>com.mycompany.myIdentity.MyUserImpl<span class="jive-xml-tag"></class></span>
     <span class="jive-xml-tag"><config/></span>
<span class="jive-xml-tag"></module></span>
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span>After starting the server by double-clicking the run.bat und browsing the site </span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://localhost:8080/portal" target="_blank">http://localhost:8080/portal</a></p><p>I get the following exception:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>exception</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>javax.servlet.ServletException: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Unable to locate current JTA transaction</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet.service(PortalServlet.java:278)</p><p>     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)</p><p>     org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>root cause</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>org.hibernate.HibernateException: Unable to locate current JTA transaction</p><p>     org.hibernate.context.JTASessionContext.currentSession(JTASessionContext.java:61)</p><p>     org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.getCurrentSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:544)</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.PersistentPortalObjectContainer.getObjectNode(PersistentPortalObjectContainer.java:252)</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.AbstractPortalObjectContainer.getContext(AbstractPortalObjectContainer.java:112)</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.core.impl.model.portal.AbstractPortalObjectContainer.getContext(AbstractPortalObjectContainer.java:81)</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.core.model.portal.DefaultPortalCommandFactory.doMapping(DefaultPortalCommandFactory.java:72)</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.core.controller.Controller.handle(Controller.java:252)</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.server.RequestControllerDispatcher.invoke(RequestControllerDispatcher.java:51)</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.common.invocation.Invocation.invokeNext(Invocation.java:131)</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.common.invocation.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:157)</p><p>     org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet.service(PortalServlet.java:252)</p><p>     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)</p><p>     org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96)</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p></blockquote><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I get the same exception even without deploying the jar file, just by changing the identity-config.xml file. So I assume</p><p>that my jar isn't loaded at all. Furthermore my new module has nothing to do with databases and thus needs no JTA transaction.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So what am I missing to get this thing working?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks in advance for your help.</p></div>
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