[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Portal] - Re: UserProfileModule LDAP implementation

[bvogt]

"bdaw" wrote : 
  | If you have experience with it 
  | 
with respect to my responsibility I should have that experience - at least for what we needed.

The resources are not "easy" to read, because you don't get the whole picture at once.
Therefore I would try to summarize that picture:

1) Intentity Management is configured in one xml file, which defines the "datasources" where
the "identity objects" are read from (and optionally written to). It merges the identity objects
retrieved from all defined datasources.

2) A datasource may be defined "homeFor", "responsibleFor" "identity objects"

3) Identity objects may be: User, Group, Role

4) A datasource may point to a database or an LDAP tree. An LDAP tree can be defined to be read-only,
which in turn means, that all data read from it cannot be changed in the portal.

5) A datasource defines the attribute mapping: logical user attribute <-> ldap attribute
   for existing/common attributes 

6) The existing user attributes can be extended outside of the xml file by a comma separated list of
   their names. Values are of type String.
   If users are configured to be read from a read-only LDAP tree, these attributes are written in 
   the database, which is always needed.
   

The ability of defining custom user attributes for a portal is quite necessary, think of a b2b portal
which requires each user to accept the "terms of use" or other legal aspects.


Links @SAP:
Indentiy Management: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/64/3843ed5a85d84ab4e4bd12778442bc/frameset.htm
Adding Custom Attributes to the User Profile: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/44/0316d50bbe025ce10000000a1553f7/content.htm
Structure of a Data Source Configuration File: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/bd/e8fc3f8fc2c542e10000000a1550b0/content.htm

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