Configuring &Implementing custom UUP in Weblogic portal server 10.2

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Hi,
Please try to post some reply..it's urgent.............
I'm trying to implement a custom UUP for external RDBMS(Oracle) in Weblogic 102. protal server.
when I'm trying to publish the application it's giving the following error message:
<Dec 19, 2008 12:47:11 PM IST> <Error> <Lease> <BEA-403300> <JNDI entry of timer/PortalTimer was not found in JNDI tree. Message is: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: While trying to look up timer/PortalTimer in java:comp/env.; remaining name 'timer/PortalTimer'.
javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: While trying to look up timer/PortalTimer in java:comp/env.; remaining name 'timer/PortalTimer'
     at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.newNameNotFoundException(BasicNamingNode.java:1138)
     at weblogic.jndi.internal.ApplicationNamingNode.lookup(ApplicationNamingNode.java:143)
     at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLEventContextImpl.lookup(WLEventContextImpl.java:254)
     at weblogic.jndi.internal.WLContextImpl.lookup(WLContextImpl.java:367)
     at weblogic.jndi.factories.java.ReadOnlyContextWrapper.lookup(ReadOnlyContextWrapper.java:45)
     Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
>
My connection methods are written here:
Note: I've configured a datasource in the weblogic servre admin console named: IBDataSource JNDI name : jdbc/IBDS.
Also i've gone through the documentation and changed the p13n-profile-config.XML accordingly and made a new property set in the Datasync project with the required property neames.
my p13n-profile-config.xml entry looks like this....
<property-adapter>
     <name>myuup</name>
     <property-mapping>myuup</property-mapping>
     <ejb-jndi>UUPEjb.jar#CustomEntityPropertyManager</ejb-jndi>
     <adapter-property>
          <name>IBDataSource</name>
          <value>jdbc:bea:oracle://192.168.0.112:1521</value>
     </adapter-property>
     <adapter-property>
     <name>UUPExampleCache</name>
     <value>UUPExampleCache</value>
     </adapter-property>
</property-adapter>
protected Connection getConnection() {
          try {
               DataSource dataSource = getDataSource();
               return dataSource.getConnection();
          } catch (SQLException ex) {
               throw new ConfigurableEntitySystemException(ex);
     protected DataSource getDataSource(){
          DataSource ds = null;
          try {
               ds = (DataSource) getEnvironmentProperty(DATA_SOURCE);
          } catch (Exception ex) {
               throw new ConfigurableEntitySystemException(ex);
          return ds;
     protected final Object getEnvironmentProperty(String propertyName) throws NamingException {
          Object envProperty = null;
          InitialContext jndiContext = new InitialContext();
          String lookupName = ( (new StringBuffer("java:comp/env/")).append(propertyName) ).toString();
          System.out.println("The lookup name is" + lookupName );
          envProperty = jndiContext.lookup(lookupName);
          System.out.println("The value of envProperty is " + envProperty);
          return envProperty;
My ejb.jar.xml entry contains:
<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/IBDS</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
and Weblogic-ejb-jar.xml entry contains:
<resource-description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/IBDS</res-ref-name>
<jndi-name>jdbc/IBDS</jndi-name>
</resource-description>
When we try to access the propertyset in the portal admin console the following error message is given:----
<Dec 19, 2008 5:38:59 PM IST> <Error> <PortalAdminTools> <BEA-415125> <A ToolsException occured trying to get the resources for com.bea.p13n.controls.exceptions.P13nControlException: Remote exception trying to get properties for user weblogic__svcAdminEditor, property set RecentFavoriteItems, property RECENT_ITEM:RecentFavoriteItems.
com.bea.portal.tools.common.exceptions.ToolsException: com.bea.p13n.controls.exceptions.P13nControlException: Remote exception trying to get properties for user weblogic__svcAdminEditor, property set RecentFavoriteItems, property RECENT_ITEM
     at com.bea.portal.tools.ugm.controls.ProfileManagerControlImpl.getPropertyValues(ProfileManagerControlImpl.java:544)
     at com.bea.portal.tools.ugm.controls.ProfileManagerControlBean.getPropertyValues(ProfileManagerControlBean.java:534)
     at com.bea.jsptools.patterns.item.ItemService$DefaultItemServiceImpl.getItems(ItemService.java:515)
     at com.bea.jsptools.patterns.item.ItemService$DefaultItemServiceImpl.addItem(ItemService.java:447)
     at com.bea.jsptools.patterns.item.ItemService$DefaultItemServiceImpl.addRecentItem(ItemService.java:226)
     Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
com.bea.p13n.controls.exceptions.P13nControlException: Remote exception trying to get properties for user weblogic__svcAdminEditor, property set RecentFavoriteItems, property RECENT_ITEM
     at com.bea.p13n.controls.profile.PropertyControlImpl.getProperty(Unknown Source)
     at com.bea.p13n.controls.profile.PropertyControlBean.getProperty(Unknown Source)
     at com.bea.portal.tools.ugm.controls.ProfileManagerControlImpl.getPropertyValues(ProfileManagerControlImpl.java:512)
     at com.bea.portal.tools.ugm.controls.ProfileManagerControlBean.getPropertyValues(ProfileManagerControlBean.java:534)
     at com.bea.jsptools.patterns.item.ItemService$DefaultItemServiceImpl.getItems(ItemService.java:515)
     Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
java.rmi.RemoteException: EJB Exception: ; nested exception is:
     com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.ProfileSystemException: ClassCastException trying to instantiate [UUPEjb.jar#CustomEntityPropertyManager] as a [EntityPropertyManager].
     at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.EJBRuntimeUtils.throwRemoteException(EJBRuntimeUtils.java:101)
     at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.BaseRemoteObject.handleSystemException(BaseRemoteObject.java:830)
     at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.BaseRemoteObject.handleSystemException(BaseRemoteObject.java:779)
     at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.BaseRemoteObject.postInvoke1(BaseRemoteObject.java:500)
     at weblogic.ejb.container.internal.StatelessRemoteObject.postInvoke1(StatelessRemoteObject.java:57)
     Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.ProfileSystemException: ClassCastException trying to instantiate [UUPEjb.jar#CustomEntityPropertyManager] as a [EntityPropertyManager].
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.lookupPropertyManager(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1156)
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.getEntityPropertyManagerByRef(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1098)
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.getPropertyMap(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1286)
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.getEntityPropertyManagerRef(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1199)
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.getEntityPropertyManager(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1087)
     Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.coles.ecom.ib.uup.CustomEntityPropertyManager_qp0u4g_EOImpl
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.lookupPropertyManager(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1125)
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.getEntityPropertyManagerByRef(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1098)
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.getPropertyMap(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1286)
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.getEntityPropertyManagerRef(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1199)
     at com.bea.p13n.usermgmt.profile.internal.ProfileManagerImpl.getEntityPropertyManager(ProfileManagerImpl.java:1087)
     Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
>
Edited by: user10728655 on Dec 19, 2008 4:09 AM

Answer 1

There isn't a specific list of pro's / con's. Here are a few of the factors.
a. Is this a custom UUP we are talking about or out of the box UUP? (determines effort time saved)
b. What other features of WLP will be used? Will say for e.g. entitlements be used , and is so will they be based on UUP properties ? will content selectors be used? will segments be used? What are you hoping to accomplish by using the UUP? (determines what benefits you get)
c. Are there any search related requirements based on the UUP (e.g. find all users with a UUP of country='US'?) How pure should your design be i.e. do you only interact with supported BEA API's or are you willing to go to the db directly , with the knowledge that future releases may cause your code to break? (UUP's arent good for searching , you can however go directly to db or use a custom UUP)
d. what sort of caching is possible for the data(i.e is the data very time sensitive or mostly static)? what sort of updates are done ? is it one property at a time or multiple properties? is the UUP read only?How much flexibility do you need with transactions? (UUP go well with non time sensitive data which isnt updated by means other than the UUP).
regards
deepak