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What are Connectors?
Connectors provide applications with a way to decouple from the resources that they connect to. ConnId is aimed at user provisioning and identity management, but is generalized enough to support several different kinds of applications. For example, in addition to basic CRUD operations, the API supports Search, Sync, Authenticate, and Scripting operations, as well as others.
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At a high level: Provide a generic layer between applications and target resources.
At a lower level:
Offer generic features that are less resource-specific
Extract common functionality out to the framework (reduce duplication in resource adapters)
Server independence
More frequent release cycle
Continuous testing and improvement
What features does the Connectors Framework provide?
Connection pooling
Timeouts on all operations
Search filtering
Search and sync buffering and streaming of results
Scripting through Groovy
Classloader and JVM Isolation
Independent logging API/SPI (much like Apache Commons logging)
Opt-in operations that support simple and advanced implementations on the same CRUD operation
Logging proxy that captures all API calls
See the design overview for more information on the framework architecture.
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To use Connectors in your application, start by downloading the ConnId base framework and placing the following jars on your classpath:
framework-XX.jar (compile and runtime dependency)
framework-internal-XX.jar (runtime dependency only)
where XX is the desired version.
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