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How CA IAM CS Handles Configuration

CA IAM CS handles configuration with XML support offered by the Spring Framework open source project in the following ways:

• XML content is used to describe JavaBeans and their property settings, which eliminates unnecessary code and offers a high level of configurability for virtually all CA IAM CS and connectors.
• The Spring Framework reads global configuration for CA IAM CS from the server_osgi_jcs.xml file. You can change server-side configuration settings, and add new global-scoped validators and converters.

  The Spring framework automatically discovers and processes the connector.xml and osgi-connector.xml files included in the OSGi bundle for each connector.

• The most dynamic component of a connector configuration is the metadata stored in its parent endpoint type, which dictates which validators and converters registered are activated for each objectclass or attribute. You can change this by using normal LDAP modify operations targeting the endpoint type.

Configuring connector-specific settings is achieved by JavaBeans deriving from ConnectorConfig that introduce any connector-specific properties that are required. Instances are created based on the setting of the defaultConnectorConfig field in connector.xml. These instances are then passed in to the connector’s constructor by the CA IAM CS framework.

Note: For more information, see www.springframework.org.