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Subject: RE: integrating roller user management with a portal user management
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:05:55 +0300
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From: "Guy Katz" <gkatz@allot.com>
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Thanks;
RAP was exactly what I needed.
Took me a while to get the hang of dealing with it but once I got it, it
was easy (With the help of the self-marshaling objects in the SDK).

The documentation states that it is not to be used in production. Is
this only for security reasons?
I can add a filter to roller to allow only the local machine to send the
XML as my roller and my portal will reside on the same tomcat. Do you
think its sufficient?

Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave [mailto:snoopdave@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 5:22 PM
To: user@roller.apache.org
Subject: Re: integrating roller user management with a portal user
management

On 8/20/07, Guy Katz <gkatz@allot.com> wrote:
> I want to integrate roller inside a portal where user management is
done
> by the portal.
>
> The user registration code resides in the portal such that when a user
> decides to register for the portal, a new user is created for it both
in
> the user DB in the portal and then in roller as well.
>
> Is there a nice way to integrate with roller to achieve this? I can
> always just do SQL to the DB but I'd rather use some kind of a roller
> mechanism or classes. I can probably have access to Roller's servlet
> context from my portal application (deployed on the same tomcat) by
> configuring roller 'crossContext=3Dtrue' in tomcat.
>
> Are there any objects (such as user manager) in the roller servlet
> context that I can retrieve and use in order to trigger a 'new user'
> command?
>
> What are the integration methods that are available as an option in
such
> a situation?

Let's see. You could:

- Use the Roller Admin Protocol (RAP) to provision a new Roller user
everytime one is added to the Portal. http://tinyurl.com/3amanz

- Write a new JSP page for Roller that will respond to (authenticated)
requests to create new users in Roller. The JSP page would call the
UserManager.addUser() method. Then call that page from your Portal
server.

- Wait for Roller 4.1's new extensible user management, then plugin
your own user manager. http://tinyurl.com/28br55

Hope that helps.

- Dave