ARender for FileNet in Apache Tomcat Application Server

Below the deployment of ARender HMI for FileNet in Apache Tomcat.

Warning

Limitation: Authentication to IBM FileNet has to be configured with a technical account.

The consequences will be that:

  • Documents/Annotations/Metadata will be fetched with the technical account,
  • Annotations will have the name of the technical account.

If the need is to propagate the authentication you can either use WebSphere as Application server (see the documentation here).

In our example, we are deploying the presentation server in an environment with:

  • Operating System: Windows Server 2016
  • Filenet 5.5
  • Apache Tomcat 9.0
  • ARender HMI for FileNet version 4.8.18

Retrieve the ARender HMI WAR for FileNet

Using the username and password beforehand provided, you can retrieve the web application in EAR format here.

Configuration of ARender HMI WAR for FileNet

Some additional configuration is needed in the ARender for FileNet WAR to be supported in Tomcat.

User context configuration

Open the below file:

  • arondor-arender-hmi-filenet-4.8.18.war\WEB-INF\classes\arender-user-context.xml

And replace the bean having the following id urlFilter by the following bean:

<bean id="urlFilter"
    class="com.arondor.viewer.server.security.RequestParameterAuthenticationFilter">
    <property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" />
</bean>

Security configuration

Remove the below file:

  • arondor-arender-hmi-filenet-4.8.18.war\WEB-INF\lib\arondor-arender-filenet-ce-4.8.18.jar\META-INF\web-fragment.xml

Technical account configuration for the connection to FileNet

Open the below file:

  • arondor-arender-hmi-filenet-4.8.18.war\WEB-INF\classes\arender-server-custom-filenet.properties

And add the below content (change with the value matching your context):

# Default authentication method is jaasObjectStoreProvider. To activate connect throught a technical account use loginPasswordObjectStoreProvider and set the right login and password below
arender.server.filenet.authentication.method=loginPasswordObjectStoreProvider
# Exemple of URL for jaasObjectStoreProvider: iiop://localhost:2809/FileNet/Engine and for loginPasswordObjectStoreProvider : http://localhost:9080/wsi/FNCEWS40MTOM/
arender.server.filenet.ce.url=http://localhost:9080/wsi/FNCEWS40MTOM/
arender.server.filenet.ce.login=loginToChange
arender.server.filenet.ce.password=passwordToChange

Add additional libraries

Download the below JARs:

And place these two libraries into the following folder: arondor-arender-hmi-filenet-4.8.18.war\WEB-INF\lib.