NoSuchMethodException thrown when creating new authentication provider via console

Question

I am trying to implement a custom authentication provider in WLS 7.0. I have started
with the
SimpleSampleAuthenticationProvider from the BEA code samples and followed the
instructions
to create an MBean type. When I try to create the new authentication provider
(MyAuthenticator) from the console, I get a NoSuchMethodException with the following
message:
[java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: couldn't find getter for 'Name' on com.ba.security.authentication.MyAuthenticatorMBean].
Sure enough, there is no "getName"
method in this interface, but the documentation doesn't say anything about creating
a "Name"
attribute in the MDF, only the ProviderClassName, Description and Version.
Despite the exception the provider is created; however, the console doesn't display
any information for the Name, Description or Version. In fact "Name" doesn't even
appear as a label (just a colon). Also, it can't be deleted by clicking on the
trash can icon. It says it has been deleted, but it hasn't. The platform is Solaris
2.7.
Thanks for any help,
David

Answer 1

David,
We had a similar issues initially and although nobody could tell us why
(and we didn't have the time to investigate further) it was resolved
when the classes from the M-Bean JAR were removed from the server
classpath (just the JAR file is in lib/mbeantypes directory of the server).
I have a support case and BEA support should have opened a documentation
CR to correct the documentation to inform for this issue (the CR is
094803 and the support case number is 376218)
HTH,
Dejan
David wrote:
I am trying to implement a custom authentication provider in WLS 7.0. I have started
with the
SimpleSampleAuthenticationProvider from the BEA code samples and followed the
instructions
to create an MBean type. When I try to create the new authentication provider
(MyAuthenticator) from the console, I get a NoSuchMethodException with the following
message:
[java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: couldn't find getter for 'Name' on com.ba.security.authentication.MyAuthenticatorMBean].
Sure enough, there is no "getName"
method in this interface, but the documentation doesn't say anything about creating
a "Name"
attribute in the MDF, only the ProviderClassName, Description and Version.
Despite the exception the provider is created; however, the console doesn't display
any information for the Name, Description or Version. In fact "Name" doesn't even
appear as a label (just a colon). Also, it can't be deleted by clicking on the
trash can icon. It says it has been deleted, but it hasn't. The platform is Solaris
2.7.
Thanks for any help,
David