Hi all.
I want to use the PUMA API (WPS 5.1) to create/modify users from a stateless
 session bean, but the PUMA SPI javadoc indicates that the getController() m
ethod of PumaHome needs to be passed a ServletRequest. Apparently this API i
s meant to be used only fro
m within a portlet or servlet.
Can anyone help ?

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No ideas ??

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Have you solved it?

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Yes and no.
We had to use a workaround, by calling the getController from a servlet inst
ead of from a POJO or Session bean like we wanted.
This means that we send our user data as POST HTTP request to the servlet, a
nd call PUMA from the doPost.
It's not very satisfying as far as architecture goes, but it seems to work.
IBM support tells that they fixed that issue in Portal 6.0, where they added
 a getController method that doesn't require a ServletRequest as a parameter
.

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Thanks for fast answer.

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The easiest way is invoquing the MemberService EJB. You can do this like tha
t:

public void createUserInGroup(String userName, Map attributes)
throws IOException, WMMException {

Member user = MemberFactory.getInstance(Member.MEMBER_TYPE_PERSON);
String memberDN = "uid=" + userName + "," + BASE_DN;
String memberUniqueId = userName;
MemberIdentifier mi = MemberIdentifierFactory.getInstance(memberDN,
memberUniqueId);
user.setMemberIdentifier(mi);

String pMemberDN = BASE_DN;
String pMemberUniqueId = "";

MemberIdentifier pmi = MemberIdentifierFactory.getInstance(pMemberDN,
pMemberUniqueId);
user.setParentMemberIdentifier(pmi);

Attribute uid = AttributeFactory.getInstance("uid", userName);
user.addAttribute(uid);

Set set = attributes.entrySet();
for (Iterator iter = set.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) {
Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) iter.next();
Attribute att = AttributeFactory.getInstance(entry.getKey()
.toString(), entry.getValue());
user.addAttribute(att);
}
mm.createMember(user);
}

where mm is contains a reference of an instance of com.ibm.websphere.wmm.obj
ects.MemberService
which can be obtained as

String jndiPath = "ejb/MemberServiceHome";
String contextFactory = "com.ibm.websphere.naming.WsnInitialContextFactory";
;
String host = "host.name";
String port = "2811";

Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, contextFactory);
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "iiop://" + host + ":" + port);
Context initial = new InitialContext(env);
Object objref = initial.lookup(jndiPath);
MemberServiceHome home = (MemberServiceHome) PortableRemoteObject
.narrow(objref, MemberServiceHome.class);

mm = home.create();


You have to include in the classpath

<portal>/AppServer/lib/namingclient.jar
<portal>/AppServer/lib/naming.jar
<portal>/AppServer/lib/wmm.ejb.jar
<portal>/AppServer/lib/wmm.jar
<portal>/AppServer/lib/j2ee.jar

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I'm sure what you suggests works, but my main goal is to use only PUBLIC API
s, not undocumented inner APIs that customers are not supposed to call.
We've been using the UserManager object for years to manipulate WMM, but our
 customer wants us to be as standard as possible.

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Thanks. and could you specify what parameters required for user creation?

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Hi everyone,
I am currently using Puma in WebSphere 5.1 and I try do a create user with t
he
following code:
"
Name myjndiname = new CompositeName(PumaHome.JNDI_NAME);
PumaHome myHome = (PumaHome) ctx.lookup(myjndiname);
pumaController = myHome.getController(servletRequest);
pumaController.createUser("shortname","ou=People,dc=Organisation,dc=com",att
ributes);
"
where attribute is an HashMap.

This code is called from a servlet deployed on the WebSphere_Portal server i
nstance.

When I am trying to execute the servlet, I am getting the following error:

"java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.ibm.wps.services.puma.PumaServiceWrapperImpl. checkACPermission(PumaS
erviceWrapperImpl
java:205)"

I don't know what is wrong only with the current error message.
Could some one help me with this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards, Arnaud.

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