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Creating Open Provisioning Interface clients

This chapter describes the steps necessary to create Open Provisioning Interface (OPI) clients and provides an example of how to write a client to perform specific OPI provisioning methods.

Prerequisites for creating OPI clients

You must:

•have a working knowledge of Java application development.

•be comfortable using DOS commands.

•have the Java Developer Kit (JDK) 1.6.

•have the Java executable available in the system path.

•have the AXIS toolkit version 1.3 Final.

Attention: Toolkits other than the Axis toolkit can be used to develop OPI clients using the WSDL file.

Creating OPI clients

The following task flow shows the processes involved in creating OPI clients.

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Nortel Application Server 5300 Application Programming Interfaces Reference

NN42040-110 01.01 Standard

11 June 2008

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NN42040-110 Legal Notice Contents Starting the Bulk Provisioning Tool Other changes New in this release New in this release Related documents IntroductionNavigation Audience Introduction Open Provisioning Interface fundamentals Application Programming Interface fundamentals Bulk Provisioning Tool fundamentals Why use the Bulk Provisioning Tool Following table lists the requirements to run the BPT Bulk Provisioning Tool requirements Application Programming Interface fundamentals Using the Bulk Provisioning Tool Install and launch the BPTBPT main menu BPT main menu Quit Files BPT provisioning methodsBPT ﬁles and scripts Navigation BPT conventions and examples ScriptsMethod and ﬁle syntax conventions GetSysRoles optional into file name Optional syntaxBrackets Angle brackets Bar Square brackets Comma separated strings Fully qualified user nameSuccess indication on remove methods Unknown error messages Create and manage provisioning roles using the BPTDefine the new provisioning role View the new provisioning role AddRole using file D\prov\addexample.txtGetRole using AddExample Add the new provisioning role Delete the new provisioning role Help addRole BPT Help option BPT mapping to the Provisioning Client BPT limitations Resource use Batch processing Provisioning data visibility Using the Bulk Provisioning Tool Using the Open Provisioning Interface Security, authentication, and authorizationSecurity Authentication Http Basic Authentication Onboard AuthenticationWS-Security UsernameToken Special note for .NET authentication headers Domain-level authorization Provisioning-level authorization Authorization Wsdl Third-party client developmentGet the Wsdl Generate stubs Access stubs from the third-party application Implement interface accessing stubs Starting the Bulk Provisioning Tool Starting the Bulk Provisioning Tool Procedure Steps Downloading the Bulk Provisioning Tool to a workstationLaunching the BPT on a workstation Launching the BPT on a workstation Starting the Bulk Provisioning Tool Creating Open Provisioning Interface clients Prerequisites for creating OPI clientsCreating OPI clients Task flow for creating OPI clients \axis-14\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib Retrieving the error codesDownloading the Axis toolkit Conﬁguring the class path Loadname/wsdl/opi Downloading the Wsdl ﬁleCompiling the client stubs \opiclient Writing a client to perform some speciﬁc OPI operations \opi\service Example Writing a client Writing a client to perform some specific OPI operations Compiling the client class Procedure Steps Accessing the OPI Java docs AdminAuthentication subfolder in the OPI Java Docs folder Writing a client to perform some specific OPI operations Accessing the OPI Java docs Importing a CA Certiﬁcate into the BPT Tool prompts Trust this certificate? noKeytool -list -v -keystore opitruststore Importing a CA Certificate into the BPT Page Nortel AS