Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Barton <>]

Nathan,

That's really outstanding - thank you!

Tom

On 6/28/2011 11:25 AM, Nathan Kopp wrote:
> I am happy to release some code that we’ve been working on for our
> internal Grouper project.
> 
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> 
> We needed to create a connector to allow group membership information to
> be pushed from Grouper to Oracle’s Siebel CRM product.  To achieve this,
> we started with the “EsbConsumer” code, which is part of the Grouper 1.6
> distribution.  This code is a “ChangeLog Consumer”, which runs inside
> Grouper Loader (part of gsh) and monitors the changelog.  Any changes,
> such as the creation of new groups or membership changes (both direct
> and indirect) are sent to the changelog, and to every changelog consumer
> that is configured in grouper-loader.properties.
> 
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> 
> The ChangeLogConsumerBase API itself can be a little tricky to work
> with, especially since every implementation needs to re-implement
> certain common functionality.  Using EsbConsumer as a starting point, we
> created a “wrapper” that handles most of the “grunt work”, allowing the
> developer to work with a simpler API and focus only on the code
> necessary to communicate with the external system.  We believe that this
> will help to decrease future development costs as we work to control
> more systems via Grouper.
> 
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> 
> If you are planning to use Grouper to push data to an external system,
> you might want to look into this option.  Here’s more information,
> including the source code:
> 
> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Provisioning+Consumer
> <https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Provisioning+Consumer>
> 
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> 
> *Nathan Kopp*
> 
> /Applications Strategist/
> 
> *Information Technology Group*
> 
> *Campus Crusade for Christ, Int’l*
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