Working with Users, Groups and Roles 

Developers of applications running in the portal may want to access information about the current user, for example, user attributes or the groups and roles assigned to the user.

The user management engine of the AS Java provides an API that enables you to get information about users, groups and roles. For more information, see Integrating Security Functions.

PCD and UME Roles

There are two types of roles:

●      PCD Roles: These are semantic objects that represent collections of content that can be assigned to a user.

There is no public API for accessing these roles.

●      UMERoles: These are objects that can be assigned to users.

When a user creates a portal role in the portal, both a PCD role is created (in the PCD) and a UME role (in the user management engine).