User Profiles and Clusters

Hi everyone,

I am currently creating an reasonably large application intended for distribution to multiple users via jnlp. Now I have tinkered with jnlp and got the basic prototype distributing great after sorting a few idiosyncrasies, however before I go any further with the business logic there are two areas with which I would like some guidance as this is the first time I have used this platform and I am coming from a “J2EE” background and not a “swing/Netbeans RCP” one.

One of the requirements is that users from different functional groups can log in, now the suggestion is that once they have logged in (I have already made the login work using the link on the Netbeans wiki as a basis) depending on their functional/security group they will obtain a different set of loaded modules and layout, for example if the sales manager was logging in he would have access to modules(following their loading) possibly relating to sales figures, commissions etc whilst an sales person would only have access to product information, ordering, order status etc. I have been doing a bit of digging and in the past someone has mentioned “profiles” in Netbeans but all the references I seem to get search results for link to the “profiler,” so I am not sure if I am going down the right path.

I was planning to create a number of “clusters” such as Sales then like the login module use the Netbeans “module installer” to look at the functional/security group of the users, obtain a mapping to the clusters/modules that should be loaded for the user and then utilise a default “profile” for the user which defines layouts(“modes” of the TopComponents) and any Options? Would this be a correct assumption and if I have got the right end of the stick with the “profiles” described above could someone possibly send me a link to some information regarding it.

Any help appreciated.

Regards,

Caza