Bulk load of external application credentials

Is it possible to load username/password of the external applications into Login Server programatically?
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Yes, we have created a stored procedure that does just that. We simply open a cursor that reads our bulk data from a staging table we created. (The staging table is loaded using SQL*Loader) The staging table holds the portal user_name, external user name, and external users password. Then looping through the staging table, we insert into the portal30_sso.wwsso_appuserinfo$ table. The external user name and password must be encrypted which we accomplish by inserting into the table using the portal functions wwsso_utl.encrypt_ps_username and wwsso_utl.encrypt_ps_password respectively. To make the process generic, we require the external application name as an argument IN to the procedure. Before starting the loop, the procedure verifies the application name and converts it to it's numeric value by looking up the application name in the portal30_sso.wwsso_application_info$ table. Hope this helps.

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How to load username and password for external application?
For each user, we should take its Portal username and password for one specific external application. How to do that ?
Regards.

ABSOLUTLY YES !!!!
We already know the external application login information for each user and we want to by pass this user task. (Specially because the user itself doesn't know its username/password for the external appli). In fact we are trying to integrate IStore product to Portal by using this mechanism.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kamalendu Biswas ([email protected]):
If you define an external application then SSO users can populate user information by themselves.
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How to deal with credentials for external applications using a Java Client/

Hi Guys,
This is the case. I am integrating an external application with an ADF Application. I have implemented some programmatic ViewObjects that are being filled up by a REST Java Client Wrapper. Everything is working fine but the issue is that the credentials the wrapper is using are hard coded inside the java class. I am thinking to ask for the credentials at the beginning of my taskflow and then store them somewhere and use them then to create my client wrapper (passing them in the constructor).
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You can use Credential Store Framework to store the credentials securely in the weblogic server instead of hardcoding in the java class.
The Credential Store Framework:
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- provides an API for storage, retrieval, and maintenance of credentials in different back-end repositories
Check the documentation on CSF API -
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E29505_01/core.1111/e10043/devcsf.htm
Major Steps -
1. Create a credential map and key in em console to store the password (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E25054_01/core.1111/e10043/csfadmin.htm)
2. Use CSF API to retrieve the stored password
3. In jazn-data.xml give permissions to access CSF key and map

Sample Bulk Loader Application

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We are able to download the zip file by right clicking the download link and also on directly clicking the download link using the IE and Netscape browsers.
Possibly you can try doing shift+refresh for the following URL and then try again:
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Bulk loading of Customer data into Application

Hi Guys,
I am going on with the development of Teleservice module on a new instance.
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My basic question is: "What are the classes which we should not use for iOS using the packager."
I have been trying for a few days trying to get a simple Flash app to run on the iPad. A very simple app (with sound!) with just 2 classes works fine (Performance is a whole other issue. We will get to that). But if I try anything else, all I get is a white/black screen on the iPad. So it would be really nice to know what classes, functions, etc we CANNOT use for the Packager.
I have fairly simple app (not as simple as 2 classes) which loads some art assets via URLRequest/Loader, puts them on the stage. Fairly common standard practice in AS3.
I've read about not able to load an external file using the Packager. So to fix the situation of loading assets, I have looked into the [embed] tag, which seems to work. I hope the blogger doesn't mind, but this page is an excellent source on what works and doesn't work with the [embed] tag in it's various flavors: http://www.richardleggett.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/08/flash_builder_and_flash_pro_asse t_workflows. For example, AS3 in a swf is stripped out from an external swf using [embed].
The best way to load an external swf file for iOS seems to be using [embed] with "application/octet-stream" and load the swf through ByteArray (Option #4 in the link above). This works great on the PC. HOWEVER, on iPad, it fails. The [embed] tag works on the iPad with the other ways, so my guess is that loadBytes() does not work. Is this true Adobe/Flash guys? Can you confirm this?
My initial question is "why is this not allowed on iOS?". If it is because of the fact that it uses a Loader, can it be changed so it's not using a Loader to construct a MovieClip? I have a ByteArray with the raw swf/MovieClip data. Why can't I construct a MovieClip from it without going through Loader?
This loadBytes() failure seems to be the only thing preventing me from using the normal pipeline of Flash development in loading external assets. If there are other ways people have found, please share!
Now on to performance. Adobe, can you post some examples/samples of code which runs at decent performance? Like a "tech demo" of what is possible using the Packager running on iPad/iPhone. That would be extremely helpful for everyone. I have done a lot of the optimizing suggestions on various sites and pages ( and by Adobe http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/optimize_content_ios.html), but I am not seeing the 30 fps performance that is MORE than possible on iPhone/iPad. Displaying and moving around Bitmaps (I don't use any vector graphics) should be blazing fast. Quake runs on iPad without any problems and that code is 10 years old. Moore's law dictates that drawing Bitmaps using CPU should be faster than a 3D engine written 10 years ago... I am trying out the new iOS 4.2 which is supposed to be "significantly" better, but I am still stuck on loadBytes().
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I have hardly ever seen a post here from someone at Adobe, so you may need to be patient.
Read this article, and get its associated demo files, to see some good performing tech demos:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/optimize_content_ios.html
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Now, I can think of at least a couple of reasons why you might want to have external swfs with elements that you want to reuse in the main swf. One would be if you're intending to make a lot of them, like say if you wanted to have an Asteroids game and the ability to use artwork from a set of different swfs. Another reason might be if you want to skin your interface, by taking specific elements from the loaded swf and using them in the main swf. That way you could have artists preparing those swfs for you, and you just include them in your package, and load the one you want.
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ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,loaded);
ldr.load(req);
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innermc.x = 50;
innermc.y = 50;
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bm.x = 150;
bm.y = 150;
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Single Sign-On and External Applications Portlet

I would like to know how complicated would be to call an External Application with SSO (like Hotmail), outside the External Applications Portlet.
We have defined around 10 external applications with SSO,they worked fine.
but due to look&feel issues, we would like to put them in a content area , like items that when the user clicks, takes them to the external application and performs the single sign-on.
Any advice will be appreciated.
tks!!

Maria, I was experimenting with this last night, to answer your question, and I think a cool way of doing this would be the following:
Create a custom attribute called "App ID" - make this a NUMBER type. This is where the external application id will be stored.
Create a custom item type: "External Application"
You have two options for the base type: either "URL" or "<None>". If you pick URL, then you can have the item contain the URL for fapp_process_login, but this is not advisable because it will require the administrator to type in this long URL every time a new application is added.
If you select base type URL, you should use that URL to let the administrator provide a URL to the application's homepage, or a help page or something of that sort.
Edit the newly created item to set the Attribute and Procedure properties.
Add the "App ID" attribute - no default.
On the Procedure tab, add the following procedures (called as HTTP), each with the App ID passed as "p_app_id":
Login http://server.domain.com/pls/portal30_sso/portal30_sso.wwsso_app_admin.fapp_process_login
Edit http://server.domain.com/pls/portal30_sso/portal30_sso.wwsso_app_admin.edit_fappuser
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Add the new custom item type to a folder, and all the administrator needs to do is set the title, and App ID for the new item.
Excercise for the Reader
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Someone might be able to point me in the right direction about this.
I have registered each of my applications as external applications within Oracle Portal in order to avail of single sign-on.
This is fine to a point, but registering applications in this way still requires the user to enter a username and password once in order to login to the application the first time they use it, even though they have already logged into the Portal. As long as the user doesn't log out of the application they can close their browser and when they come back to the application they are still logged in.
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Maria, I was experimenting with this last night, to answer your question, and I think a cool way of doing this would be the following:
Create a custom attribute called "App ID" - make this a NUMBER type. This is where the external application id will be stored.
Create a custom item type: "External Application"
You have two options for the base type: either "URL" or "<None>". If you pick URL, then you can have the item contain the URL for fapp_process_login, but this is not advisable because it will require the administrator to type in this long URL every time a new application is added.
If you select base type URL, you should use that URL to let the administrator provide a URL to the application's homepage, or a help page or something of that sort.
Edit the newly created item to set the Attribute and Procedure properties.
Add the "App ID" attribute - no default.
On the Procedure tab, add the following procedures (called as HTTP), each with the App ID passed as "p_app_id":
Login http://server.domain.com/pls/portal30_sso/portal30_sso.wwsso_app_admin.fapp_process_login
Edit http://server.domain.com/pls/portal30_sso/portal30_sso.wwsso_app_admin.edit_fappuser
That's it!
Add the new custom item type to a folder, and all the administrator needs to do is set the title, and App ID for the new item.
Excercise for the Reader
You will notice that clicking on the Edit link will take you to the login server when you are done editing the credentials. To avoid this, pass another parameter to the edit procedure - p_done_url, and set a value for that to point to the page that you want to go to after editing credentials.

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I am desperate!!!
I am trying to do the following:
I have a pl/sql application that presents to the user a set of external applications links.When the user activates a link, I would like to make a call the SSO server so it can do external application login.
I know I can configure the external applications as described in the SSO admin guide.
Unfortunately the API to query the SSO server for external application mapping is not public.
ANY IDEAS ON WHERE I CAN GET THIS INFO??
Every thing I have read says that external applications can be accessed through Portal. This is not my case. I can use any packages or classes available by the SSO server to portal, but MY APPLICATION IS NOT A PORTAL.

I have similar kind of requirements for Single sign-on to external web applications.
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These uids & password are exported to external applications, which upon recieving creates user in their applications.
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I don't see a way to that servlet to retrieve a password for the user - it's not stored in the session.
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2. Normal way - web server: Implement login module to this application, which will trust REMOTE_USER variable provided by the agent on the web server.
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Hi,
I'm doing a Portal iFS integration project. We managed to login to our iFS application via an external application definition in the Login Server. We created a JSP screen to create iFS users. In the back-end java-code uses the Portal API to create a Portal user. When this new user uses the external application link for the first time he gets a Portal screen to supply the external username/password combination. Can someone answer the following questions:
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2. Is there an API to specifiy the external username/password combination for a specific portal user and specific external application in advance in order to prevent the firsttime login screen ?
Any help/answers would be great. We need to implement this in a few weeks.
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, p_fval2      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname3     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval3      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname4     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval4      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname5     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval5      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname6     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval6      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname7     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval7      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname8     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval8      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fname9     IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_fval9      IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL
, p_user_prefs IN VARCHAR2
);Note that you should provide p_app_pwd as cleartext, and the API encrypts it before storing.

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[ESD] ( ) Inter Co,Financial assets carried at fair value through P&L,HFM241001,Actual,Alba,Dec,2011,MOF,MOF,,YTD,Input_Default,[NONE],[NONE],[NONE],103
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Valid Records......................0
Total Records Processed............5
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Please help me solve the issue.
Regards,
Sudhir Sinha

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