Customizing an Authenticator MBean

Question

All,
I'm working on creating a custom SSPI for our specific security system. I
have it setup and working, but there are some problems with the MBean used
to plug it into Weblogic.
1) I created an MDF file with three Attributes (ProviderClassName,
Description, Version). When I go the Authentication Provider tab in the
Weblogic console, I see that these settings are being properly retreived and
displayed.
But if I select my specific provider, the page that comes back has blank
entries for everything listed here (things like name, description, version,
control flag). Also, Control Flag appears as an empty text-input field
instead of a drop down listing the proper flags.
In the System.out window I see a bunch of exceptions get thrown when I
request the details page:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: couldn't find getter for 'Name' on
com.sapient.services.security.auth.weblogic7.WeblogicCarbonAuthenticatorMBea
n
I attempted to add a new Attribute in the MDF file for "Name" and rebuilt,
but it did not appear to fix the problem. What do I need to do to make the
details page for my Authenticator provide useful information?
2) My Authenticator requires some configuration properties to run. I
currently have them hard-coded for testing purposes, but I would like for
users to be able to set these in the console. What must I do to make these
appear as text-input fields in the console? I could not find any examples
of how to do this.
-jdr

Answer 1

What I did was to get the SampleSecurityProviders as a starting point
and then add my custom properties to it.
It didn't work for a while because of the classpath issue but once I had
this resolved it started working fine without me having to do anything more.
--dejan
Jordan Reed wrote:
Thanks Dejan,
when I pulled all the classes out of the main server classpath and only had
them in a jar under the mbeantypes directory in weblogic it started working
correctly.
Now I just need to figure out how to put my own configurable attribute in
the MBean.
-jordan
"Deyan D. Bektchiev" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi Jordan,
I had a similar issue and the solution was to remove all of the provider
classes from the server classpath.
There is a sample on dev2dev.bea.com called SampleSecurityProviders that
was very useful for me, but it has the same classpath issue (BEA support
said they'll update their documentation for this).
Regards,
Dejan
Jordan Reed wrote:
All,
I'm working on creating a custom SSPI for our specific security system.
I
have it setup and working, but there are some problems with the MBean
used
to plug it into Weblogic.
1) I created an MDF file with three Attributes (ProviderClassName,
Description, Version). When I go the Authentication Provider tab in the
Weblogic console, I see that these settings are being properly retreived
and
displayed.
But if I select my specific provider, the page that comes back has blank
entries for everything listed here (things like name, description,
version,
control flag). Also, Control Flag appears as an empty text-input field
instead of a drop down listing the proper flags.
In the System.out window I see a bunch of exceptions get thrown when I
request the details page:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: couldn't find getter for 'Name' on
com.sapient.services.security.auth.weblogic7.WeblogicCarbonAuthenticatorMBe
a
n
I attempted to add a new Attribute in the MDF file for "Name" and
rebuilt,
but it did not appear to fix the problem. What do I need to do to make
the
details page for my Authenticator provide useful information?
2) My Authenticator requires some configuration properties to run. I
currently have them hard-coded for testing purposes, but I would like for
users to be able to set these in the console. What must I do to make
these
appear as text-input fields in the console? I could not find any
examples
of how to do this.
-jdr