Extending the iFS WebUILogin class

Question

Morning, all,
We're in the process of integrating a Web Content Management System with the iFS repository. Short version of the story is that we have tables and PL/SQL packages on a separate schema within the same database that the iFS repository is resident in that are being accessed through a JSP front end. During the early phase of the development, we used the following connection bean to open a connection to the schema
import java.sql.*;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver;
import java.util.Vector;
public class CMSConnectionBean implements HttpSessionBindingListener {
private Connection __CMSConnection;
private Statement __Statement;
private final static String ConnectString ="jdbc:oracle:thin:@.....";
private final static String uid = "uid";
private final static String pwd = "pwd";
* Constructor Definitions
public CMSConnectionBean() {
try {
DriverManager.registerDriver (new OracleDriver());
myConnection = DriverManager.getConnection(ConnectString,uid,pwd);
myStatement = __CMSConnection.createStatement();
catch (SQLException e) {
System.err.println("Connection Bean: driver is not loaded - " + e);
myConnection = null;
// Method implementations...
and used an SQLJ wrapper class generated from Jdeveloper to call the PL/SQL packages. Read only views of the necessary tables in the CMS schema have been created, and grant execute privs on the necessary PL/SQL packages have been incorporated into a role that has been granted to IFSSYS.
What we want to do know is use the WebUILogin class to authenticate users logging onto the Content Management System using iFS authentication; and we want to provide a Connection and Statement object so we can query the CMS table views and invoke the PL/SQL packages through the JSP app, as well as access the iFS API. Is it possible to create a new class extending the WebUILogin class, and include two new class attributes from the java.sql.* library (specifically, a Connection and Statement object) and then implement the associated getter and setter methods? More to the point, how would we use the iFS LibrarySession information to open a JDBC driver to the IFSSYS schema to access the views and packages from the CMS schema? For example, can we extend the WebUILogin class, and then generate a constructor for the new subclass, something like
package pkg;
import ...etc etc etc;
public class newclass extends WebUILogin {
// Class attributes
private Connection myConnection;
private Statement myStatement;
//Constructor
public newclass() {
try {
super(); //calls the constructor for the base class, WebUILogin
// open the JDBC thin driver here
DriverManager.registerDriver (new OracleDriver());
myConnection = DriverManager.getConnection(..LibrarySession provided information here...);
myStatement = myConnection.createStatement();
catch (...)
// Method implementations
Or is there a better way of getting this functionality?
Thanks for your help
Geoff.
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Answer 1

Geoff
Are you wanting to use the iFS JDBC Connection or establish your own connection based on user information (username,password) stored somewhere in iFS.
If you want to use your own information then you could create an extendedUserProfile that would allow you to record the uid,pwd needed to establish your own connection.
As Alan says, if you want to share the iFS JDBC connection that's not currently supported