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<p>A simple user management library. Contains a simple user model and a couple of DAOs, profile and password management components. Current dao implementations are hibernate-based. Should happily replace OSUser.</p></td></tr></table></p>

<p>Berkano-user was started long ago, then re-used once I got disapointed with osuser. Still has a couple of old classes or ideas here and there, needs clean up and polishing.</p>

<h2>User management</h2>
<p>Berkano-user defines a couple of interface for users, groups, permissions, membership management. Much like os-user does, but maybe with a more &quot;modern&quot; architecture.<br />
All these are based on the principles of IoC, using CDI (constructor dependency injection). I'm personally using PicoContainer, but I believe Spring or any other ioc container should be usable as well.<br />
You will need to declare the implementations you want to use to your container.<br />
There is currently a single implementation, which is based on Hibernate.<br />
Foreseen implementations could be JDO(is this still alive?), EJB3 (maybe the Hibernate implementation could fulfill both needs?), plain SQL(do we really want to maintain this?), LDAP, and delegators to application servers' authentication APIs.<br />
<a class="confluence-link" href="/display/BERKANO/User+Datamodel" data-linked-resource-id="43267" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="User Datamodel" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">User Datamodel</a><br />
<a class="confluence-link" href="/display/BERKANO/Berkano+User+UI+for+WebWork" data-linked-resource-id="17924" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Berkano User UI for WebWork" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Berkano User UI for WebWork</a> provides an UI for this.</p>

<h2>User Preferences</h2>
<p>Berkano-user defines simple interfaces to define the preferences that an application wants to expose to the end-user, ie what properties s/he can freely modify to suit his needs.<br />
<a class="confluence-link" href="/display/BERKANO/User+Preferences" data-linked-resource-id="27425" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="User Preferences" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Read more</a>.<br />
<a class="confluence-link" href="/display/BERKANO/Berkano+User+UI+for+WebWork" data-linked-resource-id="17924" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Berkano User UI for WebWork" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Berkano User UI for WebWork</a> provides an UI for this purpose.</p>

<h2>Passwords</h2>
<p>Berkano-user also defines interfaces and a couple of implementations for</p>
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	<li>Password generation strategies (Used to generate a random password for new users, or to reset &quot;forgotten&quot; password, for instance). See <a href="http://berkano.codehaus.org/maven/berkano-user/apidocs/net/incongru/berkano/security/password/PasswordGenerator.html">Javadoc for PasswordGenerator</a></li>
	<li>Password matching and encoding strategies. See <a href="http://berkano.codehaus.org/maven/berkano-user/apidocs/net/incongru/berkano/security/password/PasswordMatchingStrategy.html">Javadoc for PasswordMatchingStrategy</a></li>
	<li>Password retrieval strategies (mail current password, mail newly generated password, ...). See <a href="http://berkano.codehaus.org/maven/berkano-user/apidocs/net/incongru/berkano/security/password/PasswordRetrievalStrategy.html">Javadoc for PasswordRetrievalStrategy</a><br />
All these are also based on the principles of IoC/CDI.<br />
<a class="confluence-link" href="/display/BERKANO/Berkano+User+UI+for+WebWork" data-linked-resource-id="17924" data-linked-resource-type="page" data-linked-resource-default-alias="Berkano User UI for WebWork" data-base-url="http://docs.codehaus.org">Berkano User UI for WebWork</a> provides an UI for this purpose.</li>
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