ORacle BPEL WorkFlow SErvices

Question

Hi,
I am currently trying to develop a workflow using Oracle BPEL Workflow Services. The process has a list of approvers and they are not part of any identity services be it jazn,oID or third party LDAP. I need to assign a task to each of the approvers sequentially.
I am trying to use TaskServiceInterface.wsdl to initiate the task and then receive the response and based on that use the taskrouting webservice and continue with the process.
However the users cannot be authenticated because of the reason mentioned in the first paragraph. Is it possible to create a workflow context without using login credentials?
Regards
Jayanka

Answer 1

Thanks John,
I have created a custom authentication class which will authorise everyone. I followed the following steps.
1) Created the class that implements BPMAuthenticationService.
2) made necessary changes in the authenticateUser().
3) Created a jar out of the class file and deployed it to "C:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_2\bpel\system\services\lib" [my installation is in C]
4) added an entry in the server.xml to point to this library location
5) changed the is_config file to the following
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<ISConfiguration xmlns="http://www.oracle.com/pcbpel/identityservice/isconfig">
<configurations>
<configuration realmName="jazn.com">
<provider providerType="JAZN" name="xml" service="Identity">
<property name="userPropertiesFile" value="users-properties.xml"/>
</provider>
<provider providerType="CUSTOM" name="CustomPlugin" service="Authentication" class="is.custom.plugin.CustomAuthentication"/>
</configuration>
</configurations>
</ISConfiguration>
6) Restarting the server.
However the TaskManager still tries to validate users in the jazn xml files. Am I missing anything out there?
The server logs tell me that my authentication function is not being invoked.
Regards
Jayanka