Moving to OID, but...

Question

hi! currently i'm using the Oracle 9iAS and Portal (both Release 1) to:
1. develop pl/sql base applications. I make use of the local security tables (wwsec_person$ etc) to grant access to applications, content areas and folders etc.
2. a trigger that uses system event trigger "after logon on portal30.schema" to call a procedure after a user logs in
3. some dynamic pages that has e.g., the following:
<Oracle>
declare cursor b_day is
Select * from portal30.wwsec_person$ where id = portal30.wwctx_api.get_user_id;
b_rec b_cur%rowtype;
begin
For b_rec in b_cur loop
htp.p('Hello');
htp.p(b_rec.user_name);
htp.p('Your birthdate is');
htp.p(b_rec.date_of_birth);
end;
</Oracle>
Questions:
a) Can I just "switch" the "Authentication Mechanism: LOCAL" under the Edit Login Server portlet to OID? if so, how? will i need to reassign all the access rights again in the content area, folder, applications etc.
b) what happens to all the user/group created under the wwsec_person$ etc? can I just "port them over"? if possible, how?
c) are those commands in Q3 still valid? if not, how can I achieve the same result?
also, the 9iAS Release 2 has actually "integrated" the OID with the portal. Should I just discard everything done on Release1 and re-create them on the R2?
kindly advise.
thank you.

Answer 1

That is because you used a jar that is outside of your a2g.ear. That Oracle9iAS R2 doesn't seem to pick up your jars in the lib folder!!