When you say CzechIdM

What is CzechIdM?

The CzechIdM Identity Manager is a tool providing central and automatic management of all user identities (accounts, groups etc.) in the whole network, with no negative impact on the work of the current system. CzechIdM communicates with end systems in their native protocols (LDAP, JDBC, SSH, …). CzechIdM is usually connected to end systems by special connectors written in Java. You can find the list of supported systems below under „List of connectable systems“. CzechIdM is a purely open-source software. It can be adapted to almost all networks and all end systems. You can think of CzechIdM as a powerful engine wrapped in a set of forms, workflows and rules.

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Identity connector for Alfresco

In this article we are going to explain how to connect the Alfresco system to our Identity Manager CzechIdM. First of all, we are going to design and implement a special Identity connector. However, we are not going to pay any attention to details of the implementation itself as we did with our Universal SSH connector. Let’s look at the problem from another point of view: We’ll take a look at what we usually do when a customer requests a new system be connected to the CzechIdM, and then we’ll explain what we actually did in this particular case.

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Timers, Java and CzechIdM – Part 1

This is the first part of an article about timers and time services in java programming language. In today’s article we’ll present two examples of where timers are used. The first example describes the use of timers generally, the second example is specific and describes the use of timers in our CzechIdM system. After that we’ll show how to schedule tasks in Java SE, Java EE 6 and 6 using EJB container.

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