Thanks David. I didn't think to search the Jetspeed list, doh! Unfortunately, I didn't find much of anything on customizing security in the Slide archives.
Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: David Sean Taylor [mailto:david@;bluesunrise.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:33 PM > To: Jetspeed Users List > Subject: RE: jetspeed security and slide > > There is a message from 8/23 on the Jetspeed User list discussing > integration of Slide. > I still havent got around to trying it out. (Sorry): > There was also an attachment > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > --------------------------------------------- > > Hello All, > > First of all, I want to apologize for the cross posting, but I thought > this > was appropriate for both groups. > > I thought it'd be a good idea to present some of my work to the community > since I have relied on you quite often to resolve problems using Jakarta > products. First a little background. My group has been developing a > Content Management/Presentation System using various Jakarta Technologies > for about a year now. We use Jetspeed 1.3a2 as our presentation > framework > and have integrated pieces of Lucene for search capabilities and Slide > 1.0.16 for secure content storage. Of course, we use Apache and Tomcat to > serve it up! > > This email will focus on my work integrating User Administration in > Jetspeed > and Slide. Our software requires both Jetspeed (Turbine) and Slide > authentication, since we have security around the Jetspeed portal and we > have Slide security when linking to our document repository from with the > portal. I have developed a hook into Slide user administration from > within > Jetspeed by extending the JetspeedDBSecurityService and implementing Slide > code. You can find the src and properties in the attached archive. > > Please note the following regarding the attached source: > > 1) The com.novuscg.util.slide package contains my wrapper around the > Slide > user/group administration code. You will note that the SlideNode, > SlideUser, and SlideGroup classes represent a strategy pattern that > provide > the core code for creating, updating, and deleting users and groups. Note > that the SlideGroup class which manages Slide groups has been stubbed out > but not fully implemented. The SlideUser class is fully implemented > though. > The SlideClient and it's impl perform the Slide Domain initialization to > retrieve the NamespaceAccessToken. The Administrator and it's impl do the > actual administration from within a transactional context. > > 2) The > com.novuscg.portal.services.security.NovusJetspeedDBSecurityService > represents my implementation of the Jetspeed Security Service and > implements > the code described in 1) to perform Slide User administration along with > the > normal Jetspeed User Administration. For those of you familiar with > Jetspeed, if you login as admin and create a user through the "User > Browser" > portlet, you will be administering a Slide User in addition to the > Jetspeed > User. > > 3) The source relies on special properties settings. See the attached > properties file. Note that you must replace the existing > JetspeedDBSecurityService with the NovusJetspeedDBSecurityService. > > This user administration synchronization is necessary since I'm using > Slide > to store documents uploaded through the Jetspeed portal. The cool thing > is > that I'm using the Turbine Upload Service to grab the FileInputStream and > I > pass it to Slide through the WebDAV client provided with Slide. That's > another topic in itself though. > > This is important if you want this code to work! When I first implemented > this code I faced the problem that I couldn't hook directly into the > Domain > instantiated by Slide to grab the NamespaceAccessToken using the Jetspeed > portal (The attached src lives in my Jetspeed Web App src directory). I > solved this problem by forcing Slide class loading from the > CATALINA_HOME/common/lib directory. In short, you have to do the > following > modifications to Slide to get this code to work: > > 1) Remove slide-kernel.jar, slide-roles.jar, and slide-stores.jar from the > slide.war and slide/lib/ directory. > 2) If you have included slide-kernel.jar, slide-roles.jar, and > slide-stores.jar in your Web-App lib directory so you can compile the > attached classes, then you must remove them as well before deploying. > 3) Make sure the slide-kernel.jar, slide-roles.jar, and slide-stores.jar > exist in the CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/ directory. > 4) There is a conflict between the jta_spec_1_0_1.jar distributed with > Tomcat and the jta.jar distributed with Slide. Make sure > jta_spec_1_0_1.jar > and jdbc2_0-stdext.jar is removed from the CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/ > directory. > > Voila! It should work! > > If you have any questions or comments, just let me know. This is typical > of > the kind of work we do, so if you need us to implement some stuff, let me > know! > > Regards, > > Tom Keeney > Novus Consulting Group > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:jetspeed-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:jetspeed-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
