Automatic maintenance of portal users

Hello
I want to develop a mechanism for maintaining users.
Custommers are maintained manually in an external application.
I want the user repository for the portal to synchronize with this external system.
As far as i know, the best way to do this is to create an ejb which uses the portal api's to insert/delete the portal users.
Have anyone done a job like this?
Regards
Per-Jarle Saether If your users are externally defined, then you should
1. Externally authenticate them with the SSO server, by employing an External Authentication module. You can search this forum for postings on this topic. In particular, please see Re: Materialized view refresh method.
2. If you need to synchronize the user information of the external repository then you can perform sync-ing by writing scripts/programs that user the Portal PDK APIs to do the synchronization. We do something like this for my.oracle.com, which has user accounts defined in an external repository which handles all the oracle.com services. This adds the user to appropriate groups and automatically sets their default group.

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