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Deploying with Ant

The Apache Ant tool automatically deploys the .jar file and supporting libraries for connectors to the SDK’s cs-home. This deployment lets you test against a development connector server before deploying using a .zip to a production connector server.

You can deploy a Java connector in the following ways:

• To allow for testing against JMeter: Use ANT to build connectors as described in README.txt. You can also hotdeploy your connector but it won’t be visible outside of your SDK CA IAM CS. You are also able to create endpoint instances using the CS UI which can be accessed via http://localhost with default credentials user “admin” and password “secret”:
  1. Use “ant inst” to build a zip file, which you can use if you want to test accessing your connector from IMPS use the following steps:Copy your connector zip to a dir where you’ve extracted the CA IAM CS installer and run this installer to register your connector types with the IMPS.
  2. Hot deploy your connector to a production connector server and route your connector type in the IMPS to this connector server using Connector Xpress.
• To allow CA IdentityMinder to access your connector: Create a Connector Xpress project from your deployed connector type by looking it up under the host IMPS and editing the screens associated with each object class. Once you have saved your changes you can run the RoleDefGenerator as described in the Connector Xpress Guide.