Portal Component Services

Question

Hi All,
I've installed 9iAS R2 and have 2 instances, 1 for infrastructure and 1 for portal.
When I installed Portal I logged-in as Portal using the ias_admin password and
created a new user and browsed with no problems, but since I've rebooted
- nothing but problems.
Using the Enterprise Web Manager I have the following services for infrastructure:
* BC4J
O ClickStream Collector
O HTTP Server
O Internet Directory
O OC4J_DAS
O OC4J_Demos
O OC4J_Home
* Single Sign-On:7777
I can start all of the above services using Start All.
BC4J and Single Sign-On:7777 cannot be selected because
the select option to their left is grayed-out.
The Portal Instance has the following services:
* BC4J
O ClickStream Collector
O HTTP Server
O OC4J_Demos
O OC4J_Home
O OC4J_Portal
* Portal:portal:7778
* Single Sign-On:7777
O Web Cache
All the services can be started using Start All, except Portal:portal:7778.
BC4J and Single Sign-On:7777 and Portal:portal:7778 cannot be selected because
the select option to their left is grayed-out.
I can access the portal homepage via http://machinename.com:7778/pls/portal.
How do I get the Portal:portal:7778 service started?, or
where do I look to see why it doesn't start?
Thanks for your advice.

Answer 1

Hi Matthias,
usually, I would access the service like this:
IDirectoryContextService o = (IDirectoryContextService) PortalRuntime.getRuntimeResources().getService(IDirectoryContextService.KEY);
This should get you a class implementing IService and IDirectoryContextService.
Another prerequisite would be, that if the service belongs to another portal application, a SharingReference has to be set in the portalapp.xml and the KEY should match the service's name declared in portalapp.xml.
Regards, Karsten