Generic Connector - Web Services - Format provider other than SPML?

Hi.
Using OIM, I need to "talk" with Windows Sharepoint [Web] Services in order to provisioning an user (actualy, I need to associate a user to a Sharepoint Group).
To do that, I'm exploring the Generic Technology Connector capabilities.
From what I understand reading the documentation, the target Web Services have to "understand" the "SPML" format provider standard, and I didnt have found any evidences that the Sharepoint Services are SPML compliant.
So, my questions are:
1) Anyone knows of a GTC talking with Web Services non-SPML compliant (in particular, Microsoft-branded Web Services)?
2) Are there alternative ways of doing what I need (using the Generic Connector... or not)?
Thanks in advance.

the way we did it was to get the wsdl of the service you need to talk to.
try and create the client stubs with axis or xfire (depending on which version of axis you may need other than rpc/encoded format) create the standalone client to test you service.
once you get it working take you client code, jar it up into the ThirdParty directory along with the required jars for the service implementation.
then write your adapter using the code from the your client jar.
Fred

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