database user management in sunspotdemoportal

[Mustafa Yalniz <ya...@bumed.org.tr>]

Hi,
 
We are using sunspotdemoportal in Cocoon 2.0.4 as a basis for our
application. Basically it uses xml files as resources for authentication
and roles management.
 
Because we will expect a big number of users we would like to use
database instead of xml files for the user and role management.
 
We know how we could access a database from cocoon. 
 
Can we replace the content of existing xml files (e.g
sunrise-newuser.xml) with needed xml statements accessing database or
does we have to take care of possible sunShine side effects?
 
For example instead of below:
 
<adduser xmlns:sunshine="http://cocoon.apache.org/sunshine/1.0">
  <!-- add to sunrise users -->
  <sunshine:insert>
    <sunshine:file>vip/resources/sunrise-user.xml</sunshine:file>
    <sunshine:path>/authentication/users</sunshine:path>
    <sunshine:fragment>
      <user>
        ...user info
      </user>
    </sunshine:fragment>
    <sunshine:replace>
      user[name='<sunshine:getxml context="request"
path="/parameter/ID"/>']
    </sunshine:replace>
  </sunshine:insert>
</adduser>
 
We have below lines with appropriate sitemap changes.
 
<adduser xmlns:sunshine="http://cocoon.apache.org/sunshine/1.0">
  <!-- add to sunrise users -->
  <!-- XML statements to add user in the database -->
</adduser>
 
Does the infrastructure relies on these xml files and when we do it with
database are we going to be missing anything?
 
Best regards,
Mustafa