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Providers

A provider is an object that provides access to managed objects and other CA IdentityMinder 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 IdentityMinder includes the following providers:

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