Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Keith Hazelton <>]

How would the Working Group feel about revisiting the issue of which 
version of Grouper ought to introduce transaction log or change log 
capabilities?   --Keith
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Tom Barton wrote:

> blair christensen wrote:
>
> > On 2005.01.20 22:07, Walter Hoehn wrote:
> >
> > > Has SPML been considered as a possible base connector format for 
> > > provisioning targets?  
> >
> >
> >
> > I hadn't considered SPML yet but then I wasn't aware of it until
> > your message.  And, as I haven't managed to read through all of the
> > SPML docs yet, if someone more familiar with it has an opinion I'd
> > be interested in hearing it.
> >
> > blair.
>
>
> A transaction log or change log capability was deliberately omitted 
> from the specs for the Grouper API at least through v1.0 (I strongly 
> desired it to be in, but the weight of the working group at the time 
> went the other way). As a consequence, provisioning conectors are left 
> with the task of logical diff'ing to determine what incremental 
> changes to make to their targets. Does this fact overly complicate the 
> design for an SPML based connector format? To do the diff'ing it might 
> already have to reach through to target-specific communication 
> protocols and data representations...
>
> Tom



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