Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Barton <>]

[I'm adding the signet list to the CC list]

Some while back I analyzed the IMS Enterprise spec in regard to the 
membership management service and concluded that it could be implemented 
by a web services wrapper around the Grouper API.

Do you suppose someone from this consortium of UK universities might be 
interested to evaluate Grouper for use in their project? I'd be happy to 
speak with them. I'd really like to see discussion on grouper-dev 
embrace topics like profiles for use of Grouper in various contexts.

Tom

Mark McLaren wrote:
> Following the I2MI UI conference call I had a couple of relevant thoughts.
>
> * IMS Enterprise Services Loader / Provisioner
>
> Firstly, there was mention of how Signet would communicate with
> Grouper (this might apply generically to the any web
> application/Grouper interface).  Perhaps, another loader/provisioner
> that could be considered sometime in the future could implement the
> IMS Enterprise Services Specification.  There is an Apache Axis based
> implementation of the web services specification (that actually lacks
> the group management component) developed by CETIS.  I know of at
> least one consortium of Universities in the UK that were considering
> using this to communicate groups information across portal instances.
>
> IMS Enterprise Services Specification:
> <http://www.imsglobal.org/es/index.html>
> Using the Enterprise SDK to create a minimal IMS Enterprise web service:
> <http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20040624131946>
>
> * DHTML Tree widget
>
> On an entirely different subject there was a brief mention of DHTML. 
> At Bristol we have had considerable success developing portlets based
> on a relatively simple DHTML tree widget to render various
> incarnations of bookmark-like functionality.  This technique has the
> added benefit that it can easily produce W3C Accessibility standards
> compliant output.
>
> Unobtrusive DHTML, and the power of unordered lists:
> <http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/aqlists/>
> Further developed to add expand/contract functionality by Matt Kruse here:
> <http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/mktree/source.html>
>
> Mark