Thanks Susan for the prompt info.
Do you mean that you have to manually go through the members that see if archived users are there? That is not the intention as the user wants the automation in
using Java API to find out the project area and team area list the archived users are member of. The codes from Ralph provided in the blog looks the one to do the job:

IContributor user = teamRepository.loggedInContributor();
    // If having an ID for the user as string
    //IContributor user = teamRepository.contributorManager().fetchContributorByUserId(user)
    IProcessItemService processItemService = (IProcessItemService) teamRepository
            .getClientLibrary(IProcessItemService.class);

List processAreasOfUser= processItemService.findProcessAreas(user, null, IProcessClientService.ALL_PROPERTIES , monitor);

So, a Contributor (to my knowledge) does not know what teams they are on.  A team knows what members it has and what role each member has on that team.

So you would to start at the team and get its members and loop through the members.  Each member (Contributor) has the isArchived() flag, so you would then have to check that.  I don't believe there is a getArchivedMembers() method .. only a getMembers() method on a team.

removeMember(IContributorHandle) is a method on the ITeamArea.  As I mentioned, the team knows it's members, but a member does not know its' teams.  So it would be something like this:
getAllTeamAreas;
for each teamArea {
   teamArea.getMembers();
   for each Member {
      member.isArchived()?  If yes, then teamArea.removeMember(memberHandle);
   }
}    

The logic sounds good. How about if it is project area's member but not in a team area?

Hi, Ralph

Thank you very much and yes I am referring to the codes in your blog. Can you please advise whether the code applies to the archived users or not.

And if we want to remove the archived users from the project area/team area, what is the method to achieve that? Would removeLoginParticipant(ITeamRepository.ILoginParticipant participant)  do the job?

Thanks

Don

IProcessArea.removeMember

from the javadoc.

removeMember(IContributorHandle contributorHandle)
          Removes the contributor represented by the given handle from the set of contributors constituting the members of this process area.

Archived is just an attribute on some of the objects. it doesn't affect the rest of the operations.
Project/Teamarea are decended from IProcessArea

In this API it is always important to understand the context of what to do and where.
You want to remove a user from a project area (and potentially from a team area as well). IProcessArea is the common interface for ProjectAreas and TeamAreas.

With content assist in my code you see that there are several methods to remove users etc. like Sam points out above. That would be my approach to try too.

Archived users: As far as I can tell, an archived user is like any other user. It is only no longer active and has no licenses. However, an archived user might still be member of project areas - I did never play with this. The Archived User has an IContributorHandle and an IContributor object as any other user. So all operations should still apply.

Thanks a lot to Ralph and Sam for the explanation and detailed method.