How exactly did you write the authentication class? It should not be a plugin (implementing XWikiPlugin), but an authenticator, implementing the XWikiAuthService interface.
Juergen Lorenz Simon wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > thanks for the reply. I have two plugins in the jarfile in question. I > double-checked the problem by setting up on scratch on a new machine. > Everything looks fine, one plugin from the same jar file is found and > works as it should. The authentication plugin is not found: > > > - Initializing AuthService... > - Failed to initialize AuthService > com.kontrast.vodafone.portal.xwiki.PortalAuthenticationPlugin using > Reflection, trying default implementations using 'new'. > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > com.kontrast.vodafone.portal.xwiki.PortalAuthenticationPlugin > at > org > .apache > .catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java: > 1360) > at > org > .apache > .catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java: > 1206) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:374) > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164) > at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.getAuthService(XWiki.java:4630) > > > I'm a bit confounded now. Any more ideas? Could it be some problem > with classpath ordering? > > Cheers, > J.L.Simon > > > > On 10.12.2008, at 12:38, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> All seems ok to me. You don't need more that pointing the right class >> in xwiki.cfg... >> >> Are you really sure that the jar contains the class and is in the >> published /lib folder ? I don't see anything else yet. >> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Juergen Lorenz Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> i've been writing a custom authentication plugin for xwiki. The >>> implementation was >>> pretty straightforward, however I'm having trouble deploying the >>> plugin. I bundled >>> it with other plugins for the same purpose in a jar file. >>> >>> The jar file is deployed to my local repository. It's pulled in >>> when I >>> build the >>> xe-debug-web in Eclipse and it's present in the xe-debug-web/WEB-INF/ >>> lib directory >>> of the deployed app (in .metadata/.plugins/ >>> org.eclipse.wst.server.core/ >>> tmp0 ...). >>> >>> I altered the xwiki.cfg, adding the following line: >>> >>> xwiki >>> .authentication >>> .authclass >>> =com.kontrast.vodafone.portal.xwiki.PortalAuthenticationPlugin >>> >>> However, when starting the application, I get the following problem: >>> -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
