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Providers

A provider is an object that provides access to managed objects and other CA Identity Manager objects in the data store.

Provider objects include methods for performing data store operations, such as:

• Creating an object
• Retrieving a particular object by name
• Retrieving one or more objects according to some search criteria

Provider objects are located in the following package:

com.netegrity.llsdk6.imsapi.provider

CA Identity Manager includes the following providers:

• AccessControlProvider
• AccessRoleProvider
• AccessTaskProvider
• AdminRoleProvider
• AdminTaskProvider
• GroupProvider
• OrganizationProvider
• ProvisioningPolicyProvider
• ProvisioningRoleProvider
• SecurityProvider
• SynchronizationProvider
• UserProvider