Publisher 11g and Identity Asserter

How do you integrate publisher 11g with a custom weblogic identity asserter? From what I have been told so far, integration cannot be performed via the publisher administrative interfaces. It must be performed via configuration files on the server. There is no documentation on this subject yet. Has anyone performed the configuration that would be willing to share their experiences and configurations?
FYI, any attempt to utilize the identity asserter in the default publisher configuration will result in java errors in the server log and a 500 error in the browser.

Any security configuration must be under certified products so you can be confident they should work 100%. Otherwise
any issues you find under NOT certified products may not work and Oracle Support will not be able to help you.
As you describe the configuration you are trying to set is not certified and therefore the issues you find will probably
never be resolved.
References:
1. Setting Security in BIEE 11g:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10543/intromartin.htm#CJHFBCBA
2. List of Certified products for BIEE11g:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/bi-11gr1certmatrix-166168.xls
(Non Oracle ID and Access Mgmt tab)
If you configure BI Publisher 11g as Standalone then the list of Security Modes are:
- Oracle DB
- Siebel
- EBusiness Suite
- BI Publisher
- LDAP
- Fusion Middleware
regards
Jorge

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