I have written a code which does the following Objective:-
Jetspeed uses its own set of tables to create users, login/ logout users, and to check access control. This code was written to remove this dependency and to pick up the Jetspeed required data from my own tables. For this reason it was decided to replace the java classes related to the following functionalities, UserManagement UserAuthentication In the Jetspeed document it is said that we could write our own implementations of the above mentioned classes. And Jetspeed would pick up these new classes if the necessary change is made in the Properties file from which Jetspeed reads data ie. JetspeedSecurity.properties Implementation:- I wrote new objects for UserManagement & UserAuthentication which extends from the objects that are being currently used by Jetspeed. These are TurbineUserManagement class and TurbineAuthentication class replaced by com.abc.security.jetspeed.MyUserManagement and com.abc.security.jetspeed.MyAuthentication respectively. I further overrode the required methods to get the data required by Jetspeed. A jar is created from the new User Management code and put in the application lib directory. A similar jar file is also present for the Jetspeed code �jetspeed-1.4-b4� And to make the Jetspeed to pick up the right class I made the following changes in the properties files, Files name:- JetspeedSecurity.properties in path ..\ WEB-INF\conf Original values � services.PortalAuthentication.classname=org.apache.jetspeed.services.security.turbine.TurbineAuthentication services.UserManagement.classname=org.apache.jetspeed.services.security.turbine.TurbineUserManagement services.JetspeedSecurity.user.class=org.apache.jetspeed.om.security.BaseJetspeedUser (this is a helper class which defines a Jetspeed user) Changed values - services.PortalAuthentication.classname=com.abc.security.jetspeed.MyAuthentication services.UserManagement.classname=com.abc.security.jetspeed.MyUserManagement services.JetspeedSecurity.user.class=com.abc.security.jetspeed.MyJetspeedUser File name:- TurbineResources.properties in path ..\ WEB-INF\conf Added under the header �M O D U L E P A C K A G E S� Line added is, module.packages= com.abc.security.jetspeed Problem faced: - While trying to run the application with changes I continuously get the error saying, Horrible Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/jetspeed/services/security/turbine/TurbineAuthentication The error mentions that it still is looking for the classes I changed it TurbineAuthentication and TurbineUserManagement and BaseJetspeedUser. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks and regards, S --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing
