Password indirection using password-manager

Hi
I'm trying to set up password indirection for my connection to our data source.
The documentation states that you should add the <password-manager> element in the system-application.xml file.
However, the xsd doesn't allow this! It has the password-manager element defined, but not referenced from within the orion-application element.
Am I missing a trick here? Where is it meant to go?!?
Thanks
Paul

Paul -- that wasn't required the last time I used our PW indirection.
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_19/web.1012/b14012/datasrc.htm#sthref533
The 10.1.3 doc looks quite similar:
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/web.1013/b28958/datasrc.htm#CHDJGJFE
As far as I recall, all you needed to do was to ensure the same username was entered as an OC4J JAAS username in the user manager that the application was using. And then in the data-source (or CP nowadays) definition, specify "->username" as the password field. The container would follow the link and work out what the password was.
Can you post the doc link you are reading this in here so I can have a look at what's written? It may be talking about the general jazn-user-manager applied to the application. Which you don't need to muck with to make this work in most cases.
cheers
-steve-

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