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To deploy the services, download the warfile and configure the property files (e.g. subject sources, databases, logging, etc). Configure authentication.
Note: there is a command line and java API web service client called Grouper Client
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- API
- Batched operations (e.g. add 100 subjects to a group at once). There is a separate server-side max-in-batch param in the grouper-ws.properties.
- Transaction support (if any fails in one batch request, rollback all in that single batch request)
- Grouper WS Web Services Authentication
- Let container or web server handle
o PKI
o http-simple-auth
o Source IP address filtering (TODO) - Custom authenticator
- WS-Security
o PKI
o Kerberos - Proxying. The web service can execute operations based on an underlying user, not the authenticating user. Note the authenticating user must have appropriate permissions
- Let container or web server handle
- Error Handling
- Error codes and error messages are sent in responses, as well as warnings. In batched mode, batches of response codes are returned. In REST, the http status code is used as well.
- Clients
- Grouper will provide a quick start with Java, and it is up to users to create their own clients. The SOAP and REST are based on the HTTP documents, so any programming language will work
- Web Service Implementation
- Apache Axis for SOAP, and home-grown for REST
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