Connections to target databases and directories

Question

Hi All,
I'm creating a few custom provisioning connectors to databases and directories using the GTC framework -- http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10391_01/doc.910/e10360/custom_prov.htm#Toc153968045.
I'm using the initialize() method in the Transport Provider to do a few things including establishing a connection to the target system. The sendData() is used to actually update the target.
Unfortunately, every time a task in the process definition is called, a new instance of the Transport Provider is created, which means the initialize() method will be called. This becomes an issue when you have a huge number of users being updated in OIM because for each user at least one new connection will be created and destroyed and creating new connections is generally an expensive operation.
So I'm wondering if there's any way to keep a persistent class within OIM that would hold the connection to the target system so it wouldn't have to be recreated with every change.
Thanks

Answer 1

If you do not perform the full list of tasks for every action, then you will need to bulk load the users. For OIM, every instance of a task runs independent of other tasks. So if you have 500 new users being onboarded, you will get 500 instances of the Create User. You cannot change this.
If you want to customize the connector, you could possibly create a JDBC connection pool to be used instead but then you are on your own for the custom coding and everything.
-Kevin