[JS2-211] Autocreate RolePrincipals for PA role definitions on deployment

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-dev/cvs
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-dev/cvs, 2.0-M2
• Component/s: Deployment, Security
• Assignee: Ate Douma
• Reporter: Ate Douma
• Created: 16/Feb/05 07:04
• Updated: 27/Mar/05 07:30
• Resolved: 27/Mar/05 07:30

Description

When a new PA is deployed with several role definitions, these roles still needs to be created by hand
before they can be assigned to a user.

As the required name of these roles (as derived from the web.xml) is predefined, I want to add the feature
to automatically create new RolePrincipals on deployment.

As initial implementation I'm going to use a new jetspeed-portlet.xml meta-data definition: <roles create="true"/>
to enable this feature.

Also, if nobody objects, I'd like to make this the default behavior once this works and then
<roles create="false"/> can be used to prevent it.