I’ve been so busy on my current project that I haven’t found the time to mention this until now but something cool was brewing in the Tenthline office just a month or so ago.  We’ve developed a Sun IDM resource adapter that can create and delete accounts on a remote Alfresco server.  It was a bit of an involved process because Alfresco’s API for user accounts doesn’t handle all of the auxiliary operations that the JSF client performs such as creating a space for the new user.

So here’s how it all works:

  1. We’ve developed a set of Java-backed Alfresco web scripts that can perform proper provisioning and deprovisioning of users. These must be installed and accessible on the remote Alfresco server from the IDM server.
  2. We’ve developed a custom resource adapter for IDM which must be deployed on the IDM server. An IDM admin can then create an Alfresco resource.
  3. When a user is assigned to the Alfresco resource, that user’s account ID, first name, last name, and e-mail address are used by IDM to call the provisioning web script and create a new Alfresco user.
  4. When an admin wants to remove a user from the Alfresco resource, IDM makes a call to the deprovisioning web script with that user’s Alfresco account ID.

As you can see, it’s a really basic integration right now but it could be made to do a lot more.  We’re interested in hearing your thoughts on how this can be made even cooler.

If you’d like to see a basic demo, get in touch with Zahid (his name @ tenthline.com) and he should be able to set something up.

Here’s to hoping that this beautiful marriage lasts and bears delicious fruit!  =)

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