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1. Building a Novell ® Data Synchronizer Connector A Developer's Guide Uwe Carsten Krause Senior Consultant – Maintainet AG [email_address] Dirk Giles Developer - Novell [email_address]

3. Data Synchronizer Architecture

4. Connector Design Considerations

5. Explore the SDK

6. Building a Connector

8. Connection to multiple applications

9. Many pre-configured connectors

10. Customizable connectors

11. Hub and Spoke Novell Data Synchronizer SDK

12. Contact Use Case Contact is added to application Contact is synchronized to all connected applications Novell Data Synchronizer Mobile Device Novell ® GroupWise ®

14. SharePoint

15. SugarCRM

16. SalesForce

17. Documentum

18. Teaming

19. And Others... = Incoming Event = Outgoing Event

20. Scalable Architecture SYNC ENGINE SERVER “A” SYNC ENGINE SERVER “B” SYNC ENGINE SERVER “...n” WEB INTERFACE SERVER CONFIGURATION ENGINE SERVER Here is an overview of the scalable architecture Single interface for administration for multiple engines and multiple connectors CONNECTOR CONNECTOR CONNECTOR CONNECTOR CONNECTOR CONNECTOR

22. Supports no LDAP scenario

23. Administrators can configure users, groups, connectors, engines, and caching

24. User can log in and manage their connector-specific settings

27. Demo Login to DataSync Add a User to the GroupWise ® Connector

28. SDK Architecture – Technologies

32. Flat File Connector – Demo Schema Manipulation Dropping Unwanted Events

34. Connector file structure

35. Connector user interface creation

36. Connector API

38. Connector A has no knowledge of connector B

41. Customizable connector policies on a per-site basis

43. Connector settings

45. Starting a connector on the command line

48. Add connector settings

49. Add user interface

50. Add an instance of the new connector

52. Web admin log

53. Config engine log

54. Connector manager log

55. Connector pipeline “dot-log”

56. Connector AppInterface log

57. Per-User or Group log

58. GroupWise ® POA Log

60. List connectors?

63. Connector settings change

64. User/Group is added or removed

67. User/Group lookups, LDAP calls, cache, attachments, etc.

69. Connector Demo

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