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The basic class for a uPotal user is an implementation of the IPerson object. The uPortal Person Directory Service is used to populate and retrieve user attributes. Person Directory is maintained as a separate source project PersonDirectory. uPortal 3.2 provides the single class, PersonDirectory, to obtain an instance of IPersonAttributeDao. IPersonAttributeDao is configured by Spring to acquire attributes for a personThis class is currently deprecated and will no longer be needed in a future version of uPortal that is entirely Spring configured. Attributes can be acquired from multiple sources via LDAP, JDBC or other sources as required.
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Spring and PersonDirectory
PersonDirectory is implemented using Spring. Currently a Spring beans.dtd-compliant XML file named personDirectoryContext.xml declares the configuration of an instance of IPersonAttributeDao. The class PersonDirectory delegates to this Spring-configured IPersonAttributeDao instance to actually implement the PersonDirectory behavior. PersonDirectory uses PortalApplicationContextFacade to access the the uPortal Spring application context.
JDBC Example
For examples, visit the page dedicated to JDBC User Attribute Sources.
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