Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Let's see...  the differences are, if you use Grouper WS, you can have a 
read/write connector, so in atlassian, if you edit group memberships, those 
go to grouper.  If your LDAP is always available, that might have better 
uptime, though we mitigate that in the Atlassian connector with a 48 hour 
second level cache.  The read/write part is useful when people don't know 
where to go to edit group memberships.  If you can put a link in drupal admin 
part to Grouper UI or to a lite UI from a group specific screen, that could 
help.  Drupal is PHP, and the Atlassian connector uses the Grouper Java 
client, so there would be more code to write (WS and XMPP if you are using 
it).  I think drupal has LDAP support, so it would probably be a lot less 
work to get that running...

Thanks,
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Zach A. Thomas 
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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:23 AM
To: Chris Hyzer
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Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Anyone integrating with Drupal?

We'll pursue that. I'm new to Grouper (and Drupal, for that matter) so I'm 
curious whether there are any downsides to the straight-to-LDAP approach.

cheers,
Zach
On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Chris Hyzer wrote:

> Not that I know of, maybe someone else will respond.  Is going from drupal 
> to grouper via ldap not ideal?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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>  On Behalf Of Zach A. Thomas
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:32 PM
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> Subject: [grouper-users] Anyone integrating with Drupal?
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> Hi, all. We have a project going on at NYU that would benefit from Drupal 
> integration with Grouper, similar to the Grouper Atlassian Connector. Is 
> anyone working in this area?
> 
> many thanks,
> Zach Thomas
> Owner, Aeroplane Software