Disabling Service Security

You can disable service security by using the LiveCycle Java API. By default, service security is enabled. However, when service security is disabled, service operations can be invoked without specifying a user name and password. That is, when setting connection properties that are required to invoke service operations, you do not need to specify a user name and corresponding password. (See Setting connection properties).

To invoke a service that originated from a process created by using Workbench without specifying a user name or corresponding password, you must disable security of the service and all of the services that are invoked from within the process. Consider, for example, the following short-lived process named EncryptDocument. (For information about a short-lived process, see Understanding LiveCycle Processes.)

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To invoke this service without specifying a user name or password, disable security from three services:

  • EncryptDocument: The name of process (which is a service once activated within Workbench)

  • SetValue: The name of the first service within this process

  • Encryption service: The name of the second service within this process

Note: You cannot disable service security by using web services.

Summary of steps

To disable service security, perform the following tasks:

  1. Include project files.

  2. Create a ServiceRegistryClient API object.

  3. Reference services that belong to the process.

  4. Disable security.

Include project files

Include the necessary files in your development project. If you are creating a client application by using Java, include the necessary JAR files.

The following JAR files must be added to your project’s class path:

  • adobe-livecycle-client.jar

  • adobe-usermanager-client.jar

  • commons-codec-1.3.jar

  • commons-collections-3.1.jar

  • commons-discovery.jar

  • commons-logging.jar

  • adobe-utilities.jar (required if LiveCycle is deployed on JBoss)

  • jbossall-client.jar (required if LiveCycle is deployed on JBoss)

For information about the location of these JAR files, see Including LiveCycle Java library files.

Create a ServiceRegistryClient API object

Before you can programmatically set the execution context of a service, create a ServiceRegistryClient object.

Reference services that belong to the process

To set the execution context of a service, the service must be referenced. For example, assume that you want to set the execution content of a service named EncryptDocument. In this situation, you must reference the EncryptDocument service.

Disable security

Security must be disabled from each service that is located within a process in order to invoke the process without specifying a user name or password. For example, consider the process introduced in this section. To invoke this process without specifying a user name or password, security must be disabled from the EncryptDocument service, the SetValue service, and the Encryption service.

See also

Disabling service security using the Java API

Including LiveCycle Java library files

Setting connection properties

Starting Services

Disabling service security using the Java API

To disable service security by using the Java API, perform the following steps:

  1. Include project files.

    Include client JAR files, such as adobe-livecycle-client.jar, in your Java project’s class path.

  2. Create a ServiceRegistryClient API object.

    • Create a ServiceClientFactory object that contains connection properties.

    • Create a ServiceRegistryClient object by using its constructor and passing a ServiceClientFactory object.

  3. Reference services that belong to the process.

    Reference each service that belongs to the process by invoking the ServiceRegistryClient object’s getHeadActiveConfiguration method and passing a string value that specifies the name of the service. If multiple service versions exist, the latest version (referred to as the head version) is returned. This method returns a ServiceConfiguration object that represents the service (a ServiceConfiguration object must exist for each service from which security is disabled).

  4. Disable security.

    • Create a ModifyServiceInfo object by using its constructor.

    • Set the service identifier value by invoking the ModifyServiceInfo object’s setId method and passing the service identifier value (pass the return value of the ServiceConfiguration object’s getServiceId method).

    • Disable security from the service by invoking the ModifyServiceInfo object’s setSecurityEnabled method and passing the Boolean value false.

    • Invoke the ServiceRegistryClient object’s modifyConfiguration method and pass the ModifyServiceInfo object.

    Note: This step must be performed for each service from which security is disabled.

See also

Disabling Service Security

Quick Start (EJB mode): Disabling service security using the Java API

Including LiveCycle Java library files

Setting connection properties.

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