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1. Re: security - idmconsole navigation
shane.bryzak Mar 10, 2011 4:01 PM (in response to baraber)The action beans are there as a convenience, mainly because the IdentityManager is no longer there as a result of the move to use PicketLink. You may use them if you wish in your own application, or write your own.
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2. Re: security - idmconsole navigation
baraber Mar 11, 2011 9:25 AM (in response to baraber)Ok, they'll be a good sample to make my own. Thank you Shane, nice work.
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3. Re: security - idmconsole navigation
lucaster.luca.cavagnoli.gmail.com Oct 5, 2011 2:31 AM (in response to baraber)
Richard Barabé wrote on Mar 10, 2011 13:54:
When studying idmconsole example and seam-security, I noticed that idmconsole does not provide its own actions(managed beans). Instead it makes use of classes from the security-impl package (ie, org.jboss.seam.security.management.action.UserAction). I said to myself that these management actions from seam-security were there to be reused in applications. However, I'm not sure I understand how these could be reused.The thruth is... they cannot be reused.
The whole org.jboss.seam.security.management.action contains action beans that are domain-specifc to the idmconsole example. I wonder why are they part of Seam Security 3, rather than being in idmconsole's source code.
Infact, the name 'idmconsole' itself is misleading. I thought the idmconsole example to be a tutorial on how to use PicketLink's API, but I was wrong. It is actually a demonstration on how to map PicketLink's SPI to one's domain model.
Hence, there are methods such as
org.jboss.seam.security.management.action.groupSearch.getGroups()
despite its name, that method doesn't actually fetch all 'groups' - giving the word 'group' the meaning described in PicketLink IDM's documentation. Instead, it return the list of what is intended as 'group' in idmconsole's specific domain model.