Monday Sep 21, 2009

Another contributed Identity Connector released: Replicon WebTimeSheet Connector

It is really great that there are people (and companies) who are giving their source code back to the community. We are pleased that there is now a new contributed connector available - Replicon WebTimeSheets Connector for provisioning users to Replicon TimeSheets resource. 

Big thanks goes to Robert Jackson from Nulli Secundus who is an author of the Connector - you can also check his blog entry about his experience developing the identity connector.

Additional resources:

WebTimeSheets Connector Bundle Info
Connector Source code
Identity Connectors download

Posted on: Sep 21, 2009

Posted by: Tomas Knappek

Category: Connectors

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Monday Jun 08, 2009

Identity Connectors Schema hints

Almost every Identity Connector implements the SchemaOp operation - working with Schema might be sometime a bit cumbersome, but we can use the Connector Framework serialization feature to make it more convenient in some situations.

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Posted on: Jun 08, 2009

Posted by: Tomas Knappek

Category: Connectors

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Thursday Apr 23, 2009

How to use Identity Connectors in YOUR application

This is what we think is one of the biggest advantages of Identity Connectors - it is not bound to any specific identity product. Still not seeing any advantage? How about this - with two small jar files you can (for example) create/update/delete/search users in resources like MS Exchange, MS Active Directory, LDAP or DB2 without even knowing single method of the resource API, moreover using the same Identity Connectors JAVA API! Let's see how to do that...
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Posted on: Apr 23, 2009

Posted by: Tomas Knappek

Category: Connectors

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Friday Apr 03, 2009

DEMO: Netbeans Connector Toolkit

This post introduces the Connector toolkit, a plugin for Netbeans IDE. The plugin aims to ease to start off a new connector project and demonstrate basic structure of a connector. More advanced users would reuse the ready-made Ant script.[Read More]

Posted on: Apr 03, 2009

Posted by: David Adam

Category: Connectors

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Thursday Mar 12, 2009

We are on IRC now...

You can catch the Identity Connectors team on IRC now.

The IRC server is irc.freenode.net and the room #identityconnectors

 Feel free to join us there!

 (Of course you can also use Identity Connectors mailing lists)

Posted on: Mar 12, 2009

Posted by: Tomas Knappek

Category: General

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Wednesday Mar 11, 2009

Project Identity Connector is LIVE!

Here is what was announced yesterday:

Hi, everyone


I am Tomas Knappek, the community leader for the Project Identity Connector, I am very excited to announce that Identity Connectors is now live on java.net!


Thanks everyone for the hard work that went into making Identity Connectors a reality.  Since its inception, we have built a solid framework, shipped Active Directory and SPML v2 connectors in IdM 8.1 GA, had another dozen connectors under active development....  We even have our first community contributed connector for Google Apps!


Please visit the Project Identity Connectors website to see what's going on. I look forward to working with all of you to build a vibrant community for Project Identity Connectors! Please feel free to check the project documentation, download the releases or ask questions in our mailing lists...


thanks

Tomas Knappek

Posted on: Mar 11, 2009

Posted by: Tomas Knappek

Category: General

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