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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Deepak,<br>
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On 10/30/2013 11:20 AM, Deepak Natarajan wrote:<br>
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<div apple-content-edited="true">I'm experimenting with updating
the .NET connector server and the connector itself (for midpoint
2.2). I don't know if I should be doing this, but what the heck
:)</div>
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<div apple-content-edited="true">I obtained the "latest" .NET
connector server from Oracle and installed it on Windows Server
2008 R2. And also the latest active directory connector.</div>
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Well, this is tricky. The connector framework (ICF) used by the
Oracle is no longer maintained as open source project (as far as I
know). Therefore we are not sure what changes have been made there.
However we are sure that there are some changes in the ICF framework
that we use. This is currently OpenICF version of the framework.
Comaptibility with original connectors and non-opensource versions
was not a goal of our development. Some of the changes in the
framework migh have broken the compatiblity with Oracle connectors.
Therefore I doubt that the connectors are still fully compatible.
For the sake of completess: There is a ConnId project that is also
fork of Sun ICF framework. But it has an independent development and
it is also currently not fully compatible.<br>
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This means that there are (at least) four versions of the framework
that are partially or completely incompatible:<br>
1: Original Sun ICF (seems to be no longer maintained)<br>
2: Oracle closed-source version (most likely)<br>
3: OpenICF (used by Forgerock and Evolveum)<br>
4: ConnId (used by Syncope)<br>
<br>
This situation far from being ideal (read: completely insane).
Therefore we have agreed with OpenICF and ConnId projects to end
this madness. There are currently plans and also real activities to
merge OpenICF and ConnId frameworks into common code to make
connectors compatible again. This ideal was well received and
currently it goes quite well for midPoint, OpenICF and ConnId
projects. However I would like to express my personal doubts that
Oracle will join this effort in any foreseeable future :-)<br>
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If you really want then you may try to use non-OpenICF versions of
the connectors. However I would personally not expect any great
results. I have no means to know what was really done in closed
source projects. But I know that we have fixed many problems in AD
connector alone (using OpenICF code base). And I somehow doubt that
these problems were fixed in other versions as well. But you are
free to experiment of course.<br>
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However, the situation with the ICF framework is quite serious.
There are severe design flaws in the original Sun ICF design (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/ICF+Issues">https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/ICF+Issues</a>). The current
ICF may work OK for simple IDM systems. But it actually took a lot
of ingenuity to make it work smoothly with advanced IDM system such
as midPoint. We are pushing the capabilities of current ICF to the
very limits. It is inevitable that the framework must evolve. And
this is exactly what we are currently discussing on ConnId mailing
list: (ConnId mailing list and git repository was somehow
semi-officially chosen as a common gound for the open source ICF
evolution)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://groups.google.com/d/forum/connid-dev">https://groups.google.com/d/forum/connid-dev</a><br>
The discussion is still in the early phases. But even now it is
quite clear that non-comaptible changes will be required in the
framework to fix the design flaws of original Sun ICF. Therefore it
can be expected that even if there is currently some compatibility
between the open source and the closed source version of ICF such
comaptibility will soon be lost.<br>
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Radovan Semancik
Software Architect
evolveum.com
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