Portal Customization and User module

[portaluser]

Hi,

I am new to JBoss and JBoss portal. My employer wanted me to look into portals. So, I started exploring JBoss Portal. Read the User doc and the reference doc - understood the broad picture but can't really say figured everything.

Now to my Question:) I am thinking of customizing the registration process (similar to this forum registration), the login flow and also enforce password restrictions (some need database interaction) and a host of other things. I am kind of lost in this microarchitecture thing, being used to the traditional j2ee architecture.

Can you please tell me briefly/broadly, how do I go about adding new profile information to the User and enforce password restrictions? I am mainly concerned about the backend.

Thanks
Jay

[portaluser]

Forgot to mention that I am using JBoss portal 2.6.4 .

[portaluser]

How do I implement additional password validation criteria using the existing Login infrastructure? I was trying to modify the User and its implementation (btw, these classes are not in portal source, dont know why?) and the associated hbm file with some success.

Can I just get hold of the SessionFactory and do all the validations in service class which is accessed by the backing beans?

Is this the way to do it or is there a better way?

Thanks
Jay Milner