setting up portlet user attributes for hosted portlets in jb

[chenwang]

(my first post so my apologies if someone has already asked similar question) I'm in the process of using the portlet container to create a customised portal for our orgnisation (we don't need a fully featured portal solution as we've been there before and don't want to spend too much time changing what's been implemented) and so far so good thanks for the simple jsp taglibs. The problem I'm facing now is that most of our in-house portlets rely on some user attributes which were provided in previous portal and in order to make smooth migration, new portal should also populate those user attributes. According to portlet spec, provisioning of user attributes may not be a clearly defined requirement for portal but I wonder if jboss/gatein portlet container has some sort of integration or plugin point I can use to achieve this? I don't mind looking at the source, just need some clear direction. Thanks!

[apemberton]

Hi chenwang: not sure I understand your question exactly, but user attributes are built into both the JSR168/286 portlet specifications and supported by JBoss Portal.

See the "User Identity" section in this post: http://blog.jboss-portal.org/2007/05/portlet-best-practices-1.html

[chenwang]

Thanks for the reply Andy. Yes jboss portal and other popular portals should support a way of supplying/customising user attributes but my question is about jboss portlet container which, out of box, doesn't seem to have clear instruction of how to do it. We're basically implementing a portal using the portlet container plus our own code for identity, group and layout management because of the migration need from our previous portal.