Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 ADF Security Login Bean

When you generate new WebCenter 11g PS3 Portal Framework application in JDeveloper 11g, it creates login/logout pages and configures ADF Security. However, it generates basic login page, this can be improved by using new WebCenter 11g PS3 security login bean. With WebCenter 11g PS3, we have out of the box bean (o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean), which can handle login/logout functionality without writing any custom code.

Download sample application - EnterprisePortalApp_v2.zip. Here you can see basic auto-generated login page structure for WebCenter 11g PS3 Portal Framework application:

I will reuse the same template for login page, but will change content structure. Will be using ADF Panel Form layout, username and password fields mapped with WebCenter login security bean, as well as ADF action button calling WebCenter login bean method for authentication:

Username field is mapped with o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean userName property:

Password field is mapped with o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean password property:

Action method for Login button is pointing to doLogin() method from o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean:

Run portal application, will be redirected to Login page, login as redsam/welcome1 - o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean will handle authentication process for you:

Authentication is successful - we are inside portal space:

If authentication process fails (wrong username/password, etc.), o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean returns error message:

You may have valid question, how we could call required custom functionality, before o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean login authentication method is invoked. Because login authentication is done by calling Action method, this means we could process before login logic from Action Listener method - let's create Action Listener method for the same Login button:

Inside Action Listener method, we can access both username and password values from o_w_s_l_LoginBackingBean, perform required actions and update (if needed) username and password values:

As you can see, for test purposes I'm changing username to scott. With current test case, when user provides username, for example - redsam:

Username will be changed to scott automatically, this user exists in ADF Security store as well: