[Building Sakai] Grouper as a GroupProvider

[Zach A. Thomas]

I'm working on integrating Grouper with Sakai 3. Our tasks don't
completely overlap, but we might be able to share information.

cheers,
Zach

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 15:18 +0100, Matthew Buckett wrote:
> Has anyone done any work on using Grouper
> (http://www.internet2.edu/grouper/) as a GroupProvider for Sakai?
> 
> Locally we're looking at switching from using LDAP to Grouper to get
> our Sakai groups from, although Grouper typically provides an LDAP
> interface we want to talk directly to the WebService interface so that
> we don't see any delay between changes made to a group as the
> membership Sakai sees. This is because we also plan to allow people to
> modify the groups in grouper through Sakai (small AJAX UI).
>