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[Chris Hyzer <>]

To Sanjay, looks like good progress, and will make for interesting and 
helpful discussion.  Thanks!

To everyone, I have been working on the web services that will live inside of 
Grouper in the next release, and here is my progress on the two AddMember 
operations:

https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Add+Member

Kind regards,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanjay Vivek 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:33 AM
> To: Grouper Dev
> Subject: [grouper-dev] Updates on Grouper and WS.
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is a brief progress report on our work with Grouper and WS. We
> currently have the following Web Service Calls:
>
> 1) getGroupMembers(String groupName) - returns all the members of a
> group
>
> 2) getMemberGroups(String userID) - returns all groups a user is member
> of
>
> 3) addUserToGroup(String userId, String groupName) - adds user to a
> group
>
> 4) deleteUserFromGroup(String userId, String groupName) - deletes user
> from a group
>
> We have so far successfully tested the WS with both Java and PHP
> clients. We are looking into further testing with .NET and Ruby.
>
> We are currently working on Web Services authentication using Apache
> Rampart. One of the things we're looking at is identifying the user
> once
> he has logged in and using his credentials to figure out whether he is
> authorised to add user to a group (as an example).
>
> WS authentication was slightly easier with Axis1 because Axis1 could
> easily be set up for HTTP authentication (since Axis is implemented as
> a
> servlet in a web app). However, things are different with Axis2.
> WS-Security is the preferred method of authentication for Axis2.
> Rampart
> wraps the WSS4J functionality (the library that implements WS-
> Security),
> and can be integrated into Axis with little effort.
>
> A detailed reference to authenticating Grouper WS with Rampart will be
> posted soon. Cheers.
>
> Regards
> --------------
> Sanjay Vivek
> Web Analyst
> Middleware Team
> ISS
> University of Newcastle Upon Tyne