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[Chris Hyzer <>]

Can you please give a spec of what the sources.xml part could look like, and 
what the inputs and outputs of the web service would be?  And to be clear, 
are you asking for a subject source which is a web service client?  Or also a 
web service operation in grouper WS which would host subjects?  Or both?

Thanks,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken LAI 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:18 AM
> To: Chris Hyzer
> Cc: Grouper Users
> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] web service as source of Subject API
> 
> I understand the difficulty to make a generic web service to be
> useful.  I suppose you can consider DSML
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_Service_Markup_Language
> 
> which is standard and LDAP-based.  My idea is that any generic web
> service will serve my needs as I can connect it to a ESB and do the
> message transformation.  The endpoint can be file, jdbc, jndi or
> another web service.
> 
> Regards,
> -Ken
> 
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Chris Hyzer 
> <>
> wrote:
> > There is no plan for that.  We do have plans to discuss exposing some
> Grouper web service operations to search and potentially manage
> subjects...
> >
> > Anyways, for having a builtin subject source which uses web services,
> it sounds like it would be difficult to make that generic.  Each web
> service subject source might have a much different API.  I would just
> make your own subject source which implements
> edu.internet2.middleware.subject.Source and acts as a web service
> client.  If you need help coding this, let me know.  If we find out it
> is generic and useful to people, we can add it in.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Chris
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ken LAI 
> >> [mailto:]
> >> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:27 PM
> >> To: Grouper Users
> >> Subject: [grouper-users] web service as source of Subject API
> >>
> >> Currently, the source of Subject API only supports Jdbc and Jndi.
> Do
> >> you have any plan to add web service as one source of Subject API?
> >> This gives more flexibility of various sources which only interfaces
> >> with web service.
> >>
> >> -Ken
> >