All,

I'm rather new to Websphere portal technology so I dont know where to start 
 with this problem i'm having with the Puma classes (PumaHome, PumaLocator, 
PumaController etc). 

My portal version is 5.1.0.1 and the O.S is AIX


I'm trying to get the user and group information from the embedded cloudscap
e databse that comes along with the portal. So I thought of using the PUMA S
PI

I followed this example that I got from IBM's site

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...ps/wpspuma.html

I took the following snippet from the above URL

PortletServiceHome psh;
        try{
           javax.naming.Context ctx = new javax.naming.InitialContext();
           psh = (PortletServiceHome) 
               ctx.lookup("portletservice/com.ibm.portal.um.portletservice.P
umaHome");
           if (psh != null){
              PumaHome service = (PumaHome) psh.getPortletService(PumaHome.c
lass);
              PumaProfile pp = service.getProfile(request);
              User user = pp.getCurrentUser();
              String user_objid = pp.getIdentifier(user);
           }
        }
          catch (PumaException pe){
            // ... error handling ...
        } catch(javax.naming.NameNotFoundException ex) {
            // ... error handling ...
        } catch(javax.naming.NamingException ex) {
            // ... error handling ...
        }



So according to this example, I built a JSR 168 complaint portlet applicatio
n with the above code and deployed that onto my portal server.

However when I try to execute the portlet, I throws me a 

NameNotFoundException when its trying to do a JNDI lookup.

I tried several different things to get rid of this exception but was not su
ccessful.

One of the methods that i did was to register the PUMAHome in the PortletReg
istryService properties file. It did not work.

I've been trying with this for several days and would greatly appreciate if 
someone points me in the proper direction to approach this problem.

Thanks a lot
sai

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