Building an Admin Console Extension for a Custom Security Provider

Question

I am looking for an example or a description how to build an Administration Console extension for a custom Authentication Provider.
Especially the creation page for the provider is interesting because I am not able to create and register the required Authentication Provider MBean.
The call “mbeanHome.getMBeanServer().createMBean(className,objectname)” always throws the following Exception “javax.management.ReflectionException: The MBean class could not be loaded by the default loader repository”
Even if I try the class “weblogic.security.providers.authentication.IPlanetAuthenticator”, that is part of the bea distribution, the same exception is thrown.
It seams that the Problem has something to do with class loaders?
When I use the standard admin console pages to create and configure my provider everything works fine.
The only example “kennedy0208.zip” I found in the net does not deal with the creation of the MBean.
It only customizes the edit pages for the provider and at that point the MBean has already been created by the standard admin pages.
Maybe the author discovered the same Problems and gave up!?
What makes me wondering is that I have to put my MBean Classes to my console extension war file to be able to import the packages in my jsp.
If I not put the classes to my war the compiler throws an exception because he can’t resolve the package.
Because I moved my provider implementation jar to the directory “WLHOME\server\lib\mbeantypes” as described in the bea documentation it should run without putting the classes to the war!?!
I am very surprised that the bea documentation does not provide any example about this topic.

Answer 1

Found it. Cut and paste error. I still had one of their example class
names in my code. Oops.