Migration from WebLogic Portal to WebCenter Portal

Question

Hi,
we are on the way to migrate our WebLogic Portal application to the new WebCenter Portal Framework. We have solved some problems but now we are having one, we do not know how to solve it.
In our WebLogic Portal we used the tag "isUserInRole" from http://www.bea.com/servers/p13n/tags/auth
we cannot find this tag or something comparable in the new environment.
<code>
<%@ taglib prefix="auth" uri="http://www.bea.com/servers/p13n/tags/auth"%>
<auth:isUserInRole roleName="AuthenticatedVisitor" roleMap="rm" id="rid">
</auth:isUserInRole>
</code>
I know, we could start writing our own tag libraries but I cannot believe that this is the preferred and recommended way.
Our environment at the WebLogic Portal (WebLogic Server 10.3.2) is JDK 1.6 and JSF 1.2
and in the first step we would like to just keep everything as it is not migrate to ADF, this will be a later step.
Target Environment: WebCenter Portal Framework 11.1.1.4.
Can anyone help, please?
Regards
Edmund
Edited by: egeesken on 05.04.2011 10:07

Answer 1

I don't realy know WebLogic portal so i don't realy know what the isUserInRole actualy does in WLP.
Can you tell a bit about the functionality of that tag?
Is it that everything between those tags will only be shown in the case that a user is in particular role? If so, this can be easily achieved in webcenter. We don't have a <auth:isUserInRole> tag but we can use the securityContext of ADF (WebCenter) in combination with the rendered attribute.
A simple example. Suppose you have a JSPX page with a panelGroupLayout and you only want to show the content of that section if the user is an admin:
<af:panelGroupLayout rendered="#{securityContext.userInRole['Administrator']}">
</af:panelGroupLayout>You can use the rendered attribute on pritty much all the components, both WebCenter as ADF.
Is this what you mean or don't i understand your question?