Maqsood Bhatti - iDENTITY

Based on the customer project, I wrote a DirXML driver which provision users through Novell Identity Manager 3.5.1 to their company intranet portal ( A Plone System). The portal exposed the RESTful API interfaces. So I started looking first at the Novell SOAP driver to see if it fit our needs. But while reading the driver documentation i felt it required too much XSLT knowledge + more customization and testing on the driver. And again it used the Apache HttpClient, Which is more a HttpClient rather then it targets to any specific protocol implementation. So If you could build SOAP messages at your own so it would help you in transporting these message back and forth between IDM and Application. The Novell SOAP driver comes up with two built in configurations "SPML and DSML", but in my case none of them were suitable. I had always wished to write my own DirXML driver at my own, so I thought why not just take this opportunity to fulfill my wish and at the same time get s

Good news, The IDMUnit 2.0 is out ( http://www.idmunit.org/web/guest/idmunit20 )!.. and I just couldn't wait to try the tool and do some hands on with it. Now it comes with a documentaiton and a WebMinar which helps a lot to understand how it works and how it integerates with the Novell Designer. The Webminar is encoded with the "G2M3" encoding, so you need a decoder in order to see both video and audio. I downloaded it from the web : https://www2.gotomeeting.com/codec I started with installing the tool on my PC Windows Vista 32bit OS. I have the following setup: Novell Designer Version: 3.5, Build id: 20090916 Novell Identity Manager 3.6.1 Windows Server 2003 SP3 Novell eDirectory 8.8.x The first thing the IDMUnit documentation says to apply so called "Eclipse Overlay", i downloaded " Eclipse IDE for Java Developers (92 MB) " that from the URL " http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/galileo