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Event Listeners

An Identity Manager task is made up of one or more actions, named events that Identity Manager performs during the execution of the task. For example, the Create User task may include the following events:

• CreateUserEvent—Creates a user profile in an organization
• AddToGroupEvent—(Optional) Adds the user as a member of a group
• AssignAccessRole—(Optional) Assigns an access role to the user

An event listener "listens" for a specific event, and then performs custom business logic at a specific point in the event’s lifecycle. For example, after a new user is created in Identity Manager, an event listener may add the user’s information to a database used by another application.

Note: For more information on configuring event listeners, see the Programming Guide for Java.