topic Why IdentitySession operated with EntityObjects? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/why-identitysession-operated-with-entityobjects/m-p/22524#M10820 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm trying to implement own IdentitySession - I need to get information about User &amp; Groups from another system (Liferay in my case).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>It is not a big problem - since I've already did same thing for jBPM4 - and Activiti and jBPM4 are quite close in this par tof API.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But - I was surprised, why Interface IdentitySession operated not only by interfaces (Group, User), but with implementation classes as well (GroupEntity, UserEntity).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Since both classes are almost POJO - it is not a big issue to implement their initialization, just question from architecture perspective - for me it looks much better if top-level interfaces operated by interfaces (like it was in IdentitySession in jBPM4) - not by concrete implementations</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:54:10 GMT akakunin 2010-11-05T22:54:10Z Why IdentitySession operated with EntityObjects? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/why-identitysession-operated-with-entityobjects/m-p/22524#M10820 Hi!I'm trying to implement own IdentitySession - I need to get information about User &amp; Groups from another system (Liferay in my case).It is not a big problem - since I've already did same thing for jBPM4 - and Activiti and jBPM4 are quite close in this par tof API.But - I was surprised, why In Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:54:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/why-identitysession-operated-with-entityobjects/m-p/22524#M10820 akakunin 2010-11-05T22:54:10Z Re: Why IdentitySession operated with EntityObjects? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/why-identitysession-operated-with-entityobjects/m-p/22525#M10821 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>i can't recall if there was a specific reason for it.&nbsp; your request seems valid.&nbsp; we should try to switch to interfaces.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>created </SPAN><A href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-319" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-319</A></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:02:04 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/why-identitysession-operated-with-entityobjects/m-p/22525#M10821 tombaeyens 2010-11-08T15:02:04Z