Use Correspondence Management to manage interactive statement content

hi,
it is possible to use CMSA to manage interactive statement content? in particular, the change of content related to promotions or other marketing content. This is very important for companies that offer monthly promotions and other users easily and quickly they can replace the content associated with the offer.
deo

hi Gary,
I'll explain:
The company has an interactive template of the invoice. Template consists of:
1. where the main part displays customer data - permanent, unchanging.
2. part of my so-called. "content space" where your are dedicated to the customer promotions and advertising (variable content).
Everything we create in Flex Builder, but when we want to change the "content space"you have to create everything from scratch in the flex builder. So the question is: is it possible to change the contents of the "content space" without the use of flex builder? This means, for example, be able to replace the reference to advertising from ad1.jpg to ad2.jpg. It's just to replace the image, not the structure of the template.

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Using container managed form-based security in JSF

h1. Using container managed, form-based security in a JSF web app.
A Practical Solution
h2. {color:#993300}*But first, some background on the problem*{color}
The Form components available in JSF will not let you specify the target action, everything is a post-back. When using container security, however, you have to specifically submit to the magic action j_security_check to trigger authentication. This means that the only way to do this in a JSF page is to use an HTML form tag enclosed in verbatim tags. This has the side effect that the post is not handled by JSF at all meaning you can't take advantage of normal JSF functionality such as validators, plus you have a horrible chimera of a page containing both markup and components. This screws up things like skinning. ([credit to Duncan Mills in this 2 years old article|http://groundside.com/blog/DuncanMills.php?title=j2ee_security_a_jsf_based_login_form&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1]).
In this solution, I will use a pure JSF page as the login page that the end user interacts with. This page will simply gather the input for the username and password and pass that on to a plain old jsp proxy to do the actual submit. This will avoid the whole problem of having to use verbatim tags or a mixture of JSF and JSP in the user view.
h2. {color:#993300}*Step 1: Configure the Security Realm in the Web App Container*{color}
What is a container? A container is basically a security framework that is implemented directly by whatever app server you are running, in my case Glassfish v2ur2 that comes with Netbeans 6.1. Your container can have multiple security realms. Each realm manages a definition of the security "*principles*" that are defined to interact with your application. A security principle is basically just a user of the system that is defined by three fields:
- Username
- Group
- Password
The security realm can be set up to authenticate using a simple file, or through JDBC, or LDAP, and more. In my case, I am using a "file" based realm. The users are statically defined directly through the app server interface. Here's how to do it (on Glassfish):
1. Start up your app server and log into the admin interface (http://localhost:4848)
2. Drill down into Configuration > Security > Realms.
3. Here you will see the default realms defined on the server. Drill down into the file realm.
4. There is no need to change any of the default settings. Click the Manage Users button.
5. Create a new user by entering username/password.
Note: If you enter a group name then you will be able to define permissions based on group in your app, which is much more usefull in a real app.
I entered a group named "Users" since my app will only have one set of permissions and all users should be authenticated and treated the same.
That way I will be able to set permissions to resources for the "Users" group that will apply to all users that have this group assigned.
TIP: After you get everything working, you can hook it all up to JDBC instead of "file" so that you can manage your users in a database.
h2. {color:#993300}*Step 2: Create the project*{color}
Since I'm a newbie to JSF, I am using Netbeans 6.1 so that I can play around with all of the fancy Visual Web JavaServer Faces components and the visual designer.
1. Start by creating a new Visual Web JSF project.
2. Next, create a new subfolder under your web root called "secure". This is the folder that we will define a Security Constraint for in a later step, so that any user trying to access any page in this folder will be redirected to a login page to sign in, if they haven't already.
h2. {color:#993300}*Step 3: Create the JSF and JSP files*{color}
In my very simple project I have 3 pages set up. Create the following files using the default templates in Netbeans 6.1:
1. login.jsp (A Visual Web JSF file)
2. loginproxy.jspx (A plain JSPX file)
3. secure/securepage.jsp (A Visual Web JSF file... Note that it is in the sub-folder named secure)
Code follows for each of the files:
h3. {color:#ff6600}*First we need to add a navigation rule to faces-config.xml:*{color}
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<from-view-id>/login.jsp</from-view-id>
        <navigation-case>
<from-outcome>loginproxy</from-outcome>
<to-view-id>/loginproxy.jspx</to-view-id>
        </navigation-case>
    </navigation-rule>
NOTE: This navigation rule simply forwards the request to loginproxy.jspx whenever the user clicks the submit button. The button1_action() method below returns the "loginproxy" case to make this happen.
h3. {color:#ff6600}*login.jsp -- A very simple Visual Web JSF file with two input fields and a button:*{color}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="2.1"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
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contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
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id="page1">
<webuijsf:html id="html1">
<webuijsf:head id="head1">
<webuijsf:link id="link1"
url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
</webuijsf:head>
<webuijsf:body id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
<webuijsf:form id="form1">
<webuijsf:textField binding="#{login.username}"
id="username" style="position: absolute; left: 216px; top:
96px"/>
<webuijsf:passwordField binding="#{login.password}" id="password"
style="left: 216px; top: 144px; position: absolute"/>
<webuijsf:button actionExpression="#{login.button1_action}"
id="button1" style="position: absolute; left: 216px; top:
216px" text="GO"/>
</webuijsf:form>
</webuijsf:body>
</webuijsf:html>
        </webuijsf:page>
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</jsp:root>h3. *login.java -- implent the
button1_action() method in the login.java backing bean*
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(String)username.getValue());
setValue("#{requestScope.password}", (String)password.getValue());
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    }h3. {color:#ff6600}*loginproxy.jspx -- a login proxy that the user never sees. The onload="document.forms[0].submit()" automatically submits the form as soon as it is rendered in the browser.*{color}
{code}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
version="2.0">
<jsp:output omit-xml-declaration="true" doctype-root-element="HTML"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"
doctype-public="-W3CDTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"/>
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
<html>
<head> <meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Logging in...</title>
</head>
<body
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<form
action="j_security_check" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="j_username"
value="${requestScope.username}" />
<input type="hidden" name="j_password"
value="${requestScope.password}" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
</jsp:root>
{code}
h3. {color:#ff6600}*secure/securepage.jsp -- A simple JSF{color}
target page, placed in the secure folder to test access*
{code}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jsp:root version="2.1"
xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
<jsp:directive.page
contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"/>
<f:view>
<webuijsf:page
id="page1">
<webuijsf:html id="html1">
<webuijsf:head id="head1">
<webuijsf:link id="link1"
url="/resources/stylesheet.css"/>
</webuijsf:head>
<webuijsf:body id="body1" style="-rave-layout: grid">
<webuijsf:form id="form1">
<webuijsf:staticText id="staticText1" style="position:
absolute; left: 168px; top: 144px" text="A Secure Page"/>
</webuijsf:form>
</webuijsf:body>
</webuijsf:html>
</webuijsf:page>
</f:view>
</jsp:root>
{code}
h2. {color:#993300}*_Step 4: Configure Declarative Security_*{color}
This type of security is called +declarative+ because it is not configured programatically. It is configured by declaring all of the relevant parameters in the configuration files: *web.xml* and *sun-web.xml*. Once you have it configured, the container (application server and java framework) already have the implementation to make everything work for you.
*web.xml will be used to define:*
- Type of security - We will be using "form based". The loginpage.jsp we created will be set as both the login and error page.
- Security Roles - The security role defined here will be mapped (in sun-web.xml) to users or groups.
- Security Constraints - A security constraint defines the resource(s) that is being secured, and which Roles are able to authenticate to them.
*sun-web.xml will be used to define:*
- This is where you map a Role to the Users or Groups that are allowed to use it.
+I know this is confusing the first time, but basically it works like this:+
*Security Constraint for a URL* -> mapped to -> *Role* -> mapped to -> *Users & Groups*
h3. {color:#ff6600}*web.xml -- here's the relevant section:*{color}
{code}
<security-constraint>
<display-name>SecurityConstraint</display-name>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>SecurePages</web-resource-name>
<description/>
<url-pattern>/faces/secure/*</url-pattern>
<http-method>GET</http-method>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
<http-method>HEAD</http-method>
<http-method>PUT</http-method>
<http-method>OPTIONS</http-method>
<http-method>TRACE</http-method>
<http-method>DELETE</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<description/>
<role-name>User</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<realm-name/>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/faces/login.jsp</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/faces/login.jsp</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<description/>
<role-name>User</role-name>
</security-role>
{code}
h3. {color:#ff6600}*sun-web.xml -- here's the relevant section:*{color}
{code}
<security-role-mapping>
<role-name>User</role-name>
<group-name>Users</group-name>
</security-role-mapping>
{code}
h3. {color:#ff6600}*Almost done!!!*{color}
h2. {color:#993300}*_Step 5: A couple of minor "Gotcha's"_ *{color}
h3. {color:#ff6600}*_Gotcha #1_*{color}
You need to configure the "welcome page" in web.xml to point to faces/secure/securepage.jsp ... Note that there is *_no_* leading / ... If you put a / in there it will barf all over itself .
h3. {color:#ff6600}*_Gotcha #2_*{color}
Note that we set the <form-login-page> in web.xml to /faces/login.jsp ... Note the leading / ... This time, you NEED the leading slash, or the server will gag.
*DONE!!!*
h2. {color:#993300}*_Here's how it works:_*{color}
1. The user requests the a page from your context (http://localhost/MyLogin/)
2. The servlet forwards the request to the welcome page: faces/secure/securepage.jsp
3. faces/secure/securepage.jsp has a security constraint defined, so the servlet checks to see if the user is authenticated for the session.
4. Of course the user is not authenticated since this is the first request, so the servlet forwards the request to the login page we configured in web.xml (/faces/login.jsp).
5. The user enters username and password and clicks a button to submit.
6. The button's action method stores away the username and password in the request scope.
7. The button returns "loginproxy" navigation case which tells the navigation handler to forward the request to loginproxy.jspx
8. loginproxy.jspx renders a blank page to the user which has hidden username and password fields.
9. The hidden username and password fields grab the username and password variables from the request scope.
10. The loginproxy page is automatically submitted with the magic action "j_security_check"
11. j_security_check notifies the container that authentication needs to be intercepted and handled.
12. The container authenticates the user credentials.
13. If the credentials fail, the container forwards the request to the login.jsp page.
14. If the credentials pass, the container forwards the request to *+the last protected resource that was attempted.+*
+Note the last point! I don't know how, but no matter how many times you fail authentication, the container remembers the last page that triggered authentication and once you finally succeed the container forwards your request there!!!!+
+The user is now at the secure welcome page.+
If you have read this far, I thank you for your time, and I seriously question your ability to ration your time pragmatically.
Kerry Randolph

If you want login security on your web app, this is one way to do it. (the easiest way i have seen).
This method allows you to create a custom login form and error page using JSF.
The container handles the actual authentication and protection of the resources based on what you declare in web.xml and sun-web.xml.
This example uses a statically defined user/password, stored in a file, but you can also configure JDBC realm in Glassfish, so that that users can register for access and your program can store the username/passwrod in a database.
I'm new to programming, so none of this may be a good practice, or may not be secure at all.
I really don't know what I'm doing, but I'm learning, and this has been the easiest way that I have found to add authentication to a web app, without having to write the login modules yourself.
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We are installing our plugins to CS4/5/5.1 version of Adobe Photoshop as part of our installer and allow the users to select specific versions of Photoshop to install the panel for. There are a few old problems that I wanted to rant about for quite some while and now with a whole bunch of problems that the 5.1 update introduced I feel I just have to voice them. I will limit it to PC only as it seems to be the most troubled platform
#1 As we cannot install our plugin only by using the Extension Manager (simply because it cannot handle all we've to do upon the installation) we have to run commands from within the our installer, non-interactively, of course.
The interface to command line installation is xmancommand.exe (or "Extension manager (Version). exe" - not sure whether it makes any difference. ). Now the first question is how to find this executable on the target machine, from an installer. Users may specify different locations to install the Creative Suite and it certainly does NOT have to be C:\Program Files\...(or %PRGRAMFILES% in general). ATM we are using an odd place in the registry to to find the path to the most recent Extension Manager but first its sometimes overwritten by another installation and in any case it only shows ONE version of the extension manager which of course cannot handle other versions (see #2)
#2 Why the most recent version of Adobe Extension Manager (5.5) cannot install the extension for 5.0? Well, install it actually does, however its disabled for CS5 and it seems that the only way to enable it on this platform is to find previous (CS5) extension manager and to enable it. Oh, actually no - it doesn't work! The only way that I found here working is to find CS5 extension manager first, install the extension there and then use CS5.5 extension manager to enable it. Why do I need both utilities to manage my extensions?!
#3 The program is severely lacking in documentation AND it doesn't produce reasonable output messages, so determining what it can actually support is a puzzle. For example, why "Dreamweaver CS5" is a correct product name and "Photoshop CS5" is not (don't different teams talk to each other)? Ok, lets forget the consistency, but how do I make the utility output the list of all products it supports, in their magic token form that it will actually be understood if passed in in the command line? By trial and error? This menthod btw is also extremely painful: nany times when specifying wrong parameters the program doesn't provide any output and just shrugs "whatever, go figure it yourself"...
#4 Why the only way to enable/disable an extension in Photoshop seems to be using magic "productfamily" keyword that is not even listed on Adobe's help page for command line options (here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/extensionmanager/cs/using/WSB4845EDD-14E5-476a-B749-FF328830D1 4F.html).? E.g. "xmancommand.exe" -suppress -remove product=Photoshop extension=OurExtension" will ALWAYS fail with a lovely "'Photoshop is not supported by Extension Manager CS5.5." error; I've tried "PhotoshopCS5", "Photoshop CS5", "PhotoshopCS5.1" "Photoshop CS5.1", "Photoshop-12" (mentioned in examples section in http://help.adobe.com/en_US/extensionmanager/cs/using/packaging_extension.pdf ) and a whole bunch of other permutations - none seem to work (see #3). Magic "productfamily=Photoshop" does work. But then it only aims the current version ("CS5.1") and I need it to work for CS5 (I'm not even mentioning CS4...."). Would there be any suggestions?
Really, the question is, how do we, third-party developers, are supposed to interact with the command-line utility without knowing where it is, what product names is capable to work with and without being able to target specific platforms (i86 vs x64 anyone (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/672537)? CS5 vs CS5.1 (above)?). I don't know what your test cases are for the command line tool (if any!), but this is simply insane, folks, simply insane.

I am sorry for the poor documentation of Extension Manager which causes you so much trouble.
1. You can use BridgeTalk API to ask specific version of Extension Manager to do something. There is sample in packaging_extension.pdf about this. You don't need to know the installation path of Extension Manager. One thing to note is that the value of bt.target is version specific, i.e. "exman-5.0", "exman-5.5" send this message to different version of Extension Manager, so you can change this value to install/enable/disable/remove extensions using different version of Extension Manager. More detailed documentation of BridgeTalk can be found by clicking "Help" menu then clicking "Javascript Tools Guide CS5" in "Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CS5".
2. Specific version of Extension Manager only manage extensions for corresponding version of product. You should use Extension Manager CS5 to install extensions for Photoshop CS5. The reason that the extension you installed for Photoshop CS5.1 using Extension Manager CS5.5 is displayed for Photoshop CS5 in Extension Manager CS5 is that two versions of Photoshop specified the same directory for Extension Manager to manage extensions. This is a defect and will cause some problems if multiple versions of Photoshop co-existed in one machine. But "to find previous (CS5) extension manager and to enable it" should work for you, I guess you use command line to enable it and specify wrong product name (see #3) so that it doesn't work.
3. When using command line, you should specify "product" attribute with the name displayed at the left panel of Extension Manager. So "Photoshop CS5 32" is correct. Remember to enclose it with double quote because of existence of space character.
4. As above mentioned, use display name of Photoshop, and call proper version of Extension Manager by BridgeTalk.

Manage session state in web service (web tier)

Hallo, is anybody know how to manage session state in web service application?
I 'm building an application using Sun Java System Application Server 8.1, and using web as web service end point.

By default webservice is a stateless, but there is a option where you can specify the Request scope session/Reqeust/application
You can use the above and have to make a change in the client side to particiapte in the session.
Or
In the server side you can have webservicesession tracker class...very first time when user is authenticated, you generated a unique token and send them with request....and from there on client should send the same token for further request.
Token is checked with your webservicesession tracker class which maintains all active seesions. Session tracker class can also inactivate the token session if there was no request from the user for a certain period of time....
Its similar to HttpSession class ( i call it as WebServiceSession.)
If you need more help on the webservicesession class...pls let me know.

CCMS is used for system monitoring , why should we use solution manage ?

CCMS is used for system monitoring , why should we use solution manage ?
Whats the relationship between CCMS system and SolMan?
Thank you .

hi,
I just want to ask a question. At our client we have solution manager and CCMS. There is data in CCMS I can extract, it is loading on BW side ok the same number of recs, but the problem on CCMS cubes says there are the same number of record in the cube and also showing as the data is ready for the reporting. But when I run the report and view the data as listcube it is empty.
ANy of you have the situation like this cube say it has the data but when do th BEX or infocube contents the cube is empty nothing in there. The same thing is happening with hourly, 15 minute and daily cubes.
Anyhelp on this matter is appreciated

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hi everyone! im new to this forum so dont knw how long it will take before people reply. lets give it a shot lol
i just wanted to know if its possible to set up their blackberry manager in such a way that it automatically uploads files to to a computer once connected to a network?
all sugestions will be much appreciated
thanks,
ricky

You're welcome.
Let's start with your device model, you've gotten to post that.
But we gotta have some detail of what you're trying to do. In your first post and thread title you mentioned with using Desktop Manager, then you most recent post says without using any "middleman".
You can use Bluetooth to transfer from the BlackBerry to the PC. You can use Desktop Manager for that, but not for document files like Word. You can use Media Manager for that transfer, but there's another middleman you don't want.
Automatic? Maybe not. Even using a simple application on your PC like SyncToy will require some user interaction.
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Why use Solution Manager?

Hi,
I wonder if you can help. We have been advised to install Solution Manager in order to manage the upgrade from 4.6c to ECC 5.0, but have also heard conflicting advice that states that this is not necessary and is an overhead.
Can anyone advise if SolMan is worth installing and what the benefits are of running the upgrade through this vs using normal methods.
Many thanks.
Sean

Hi,
Wel solution manager is an awesome project tracking tool.
Say for e.g it will generate reports for the overall testing using which you will be able to know who is testing what is testing and how much testing is compeleted.
It stores all the log for automatic test cases whether ECATT or External (mercury QTP).
I have written several blogs on testing and ecatt and qtp integration can view the same on sdn.
In addition to above if you use solution manager you can get accelerate roadmap documents and also provide you reports which can show you the current progress of your project with time and dates.
Provide e-learning and also can use solution manager as document management system.
If you are not going to use the same,You are missing all above.Decision is your's.
Please reward points if it helps.

CQ doesn't pick up nodetypes.cnd changes using Package Manager

Hi,
CQ doesn't seem to pick up the changes in custom nodetype definitions in nodetypes.cnd when I install the package containing the updated nodetypes.cnd using Package Manager, how do I get around this?
Steps
1) fire up a fresh installation of CQ
2) In Package Manager, upload a CQ package containing custom nodetypes.cnd
3) check that the custom nodetypes are registered in Node Type Administration console
4) change nodetypes.cnd by adding a new property in a custom nodetype inside nodetypes.cnd file
5) make a new package with updated nodetypes.cnd file
6) In Package Manager, upload the new CQ package and install
7) check that the new property has been added in Node Type Administration console <-- ***FAIL***
Thanks!

You can only install new node types this way - but you cannot change existing node types with cnd files in a package. The package manager simply skips all existing namespace & node types in a cnd file.
This is because updating an existing node type might fail, depending on whether it is used in content and the change is conflicting. It's a schema change and that can be non-trivial. Therefore package manager does not try to tackle this at all.
You can use this tool that guides through the process: http://localhost:4502/libs/cq/compat/components/ntupgrade.html
You can do it yourself programmatically using the JCR API - take a look at the implementation of the above tool: /libs/cq/compat/components/ntupgrade/ntupgrade.jsp
But only do this during development - you should not plan for schema updates to production systems. In general, you want to minimize the use of schemas / node types with JCR. Use nt:unstructured, cq:Page, sling:Folder and co, and use properties (mostly sling:resourceType) to mark types. These can be much easier migrated.
HTH,
Alex

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