Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Barton <>]

Richard,

I just viewed this video - nice job!

I was really pleased to hear that the ability to re-use groups was a key 
factor in deciding to use grouper in your room booking use case. And I'm 
impressed with talend.

Near the end you mentioned that you tried to use web services between 
talend and grouper, which worked, but didn't perform fast enough. Not 
surprising, when you've got a long list of rooms to ask about, each one 
incurring all of the web services overhead. I got the impression that if 
both grouper and talend could transact a batch query over a web service 
interface, ie, present the whole list of rooms in a single web services 
transaction, this might be a good way to interface them.

Do you know if talend has such batch capability in its web services 
support? Were you able to determine if the batch support in Grouper's 
non-lite web services would meet your needs?

Many thanks,
Tom


 wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> As a natural follow up to the video last month which showed how we
> use Talend to provision student module enrolments into Grouper, we
> have created a further video which demonstrates how we use Talend to
> supply data from Grouper to provision role based access control to a
> Syllabus plus room booking system. Control over who can book
> particular rooms must be exercised based upon an individual's
> position and role within the organisation.
>
> This new video will demonstrate the extraction of data from Grouper,
> bringing it together with other corporate data to produce a final
> data feed in XML format, which can be used by the room booking
> system.
>
> The video can be found under "Exporting Data from Grouper using
> Talend" at http://research.ncl.ac.uk/idmaps/videos.php, for the
> creation of this video we have used some new video capturing software
> from our last videos, which will hopefully improve the viewing
> quality.
>
> I hope that the video is of some interest, please free to get in
> touch with any feedback or questions.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Richard James ISS Middleware Team Newcastle University