Grouper Developers Forum

[Rob Hebron <>]

Tom,

I personally would be very happy to work on both Grouper UI and ESB
integration. I'll ask around at Cardiff to find out how involved the
University would like to be.

Rob
-----Tom Barton 
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To: Rob Hebron 
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From: Tom Barton 
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Date: 10/09/2009 11:03PM
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Subject: Re: [grouper-dev] Code for simplified UI

Rob,

That's great news!

I think it'd be a good initial step to make a Cardiff contrib page
following SteveO's guidance and put doc and instructions for obtaining
the code there. Please let me know if you'd like any help or advice
about that.

Your work appears to mesh very well with at least two aspects of the
grouper roadmap. One is getting some variety of simpler UIs into the
package to better enable adopters to support use cases that need
non-technical people in front of a UI. The other is looking for a campus
to partner with to enable notifications to be delivered over an ESB.

Would you be open to the idea of working with us as those items come to
foreground?

Tom

Rob Hebron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Cardiff University we've implemented Grouper as our core means of
> creating and managing groups. As important parts of this we've:
>
> 1. developed a new, simplified UI for end users built on Spring webflow
> 2. used the hooks in the API to synchronise data held in Grouper with the
> LDAP directories used in the University (Novell eDirectory). An open
source
> ESB (Mule) and rules engine (Drools) is used to do this as a 2-way sync
> 3. made no changes to the API
>
> The code we've developed can all be made available as open source, and
we'd
> very much like to do so if there is interest. From the point of view of
> Grouper developers, what would be the best way to go about this? I plan
to
> keep maintaining the code, but is there somewhere where should it live,
or
> be linked from, so it would be of most benefit?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
>