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[Tom Barton <>]

Penn State may also be in position to test grouper-KIM integration. I'll 
forward this to them.

Tom

Emily Eisbruch wrote:
> **Kuali Days**
>
> At the Kuali Days Conference in San Antonio, Nov. 17-18, Chris met with 
> Eric , Gary and others and had productive discussions on how Kuali would 
> delegate to Grouper.
> http://www.kuali.org/kd8
>
> Chris will make some changes to the Grouper Client to increase 
> efficiency in handling Kuali Rice groups.
> For example, Kuali Rice is able to retrieve items from a group in a way 
> that Grouper currently does not (e.g. retrieval of non-group members of 
> a group, and retrieval of just groups that are members of a group). 
> Chris can change the Grouper Client  and web services to handle this.
>
> Kuali Rice's handling of namespaces varies a little from Grouper’s but 
> we can design around that.
>
> Chris has implemented some of the needed changes to the Grouper Client 
> and has more work to do. 
>
> The integration will require a Grouper Client  JAR and a connector JAR 
> and a configuration file
> to be placed in the Kuali Rice implementation. There will also be 
> changes needed to a few Kuali configuration files in order to delegate 
> from Kuali Rice to Grouper. No other changes seem to be needed on the 
> Kuali side. The Kuali Rice team is thinking about changing caching 
> behavior however. 
>
> Kuali has a one level deep folder structures. A folder in Grouper will 
> be assigned to be the  Kuali folder. If in the  future, there is a use 
> case for an institution needing a more complex folder structure, we 
> could introduce a configuration with specific  mapping.
>
> Q: Where does web services come into play?
>
> A: The Grouper Client is a one JAR component that talks REST web 
> services to Grouper web services. It’s necessary to be running  web 
> services for the Grouper integration with Kuali RICE to work. 
>
> Chris will document the changes he is making for this Grouper 
> integration with Kuali Rice. 
> He will detail the differences between handling of groups in Kuali and 
> Grouper and how those gaps are being bridged.
>
> Chris already wrote and submitted a Kuali Rice quickstart document that 
> has been posted on the Kuali wiki.
>
> Institutions testing the Grouper and Kuali Rice integration could 
> include U. Penn, U-W, and University of Arizona.