Some Doubts about Event Handlers

Question

Hi,
I had some doubts on Event handlers in OIM 11.1.1.5 ........
1) I want to use the same event handler for both Post Insert and Post update task.... Can I use the same event handler for that... If yes then how can I do that....
2) Can I create the single Plugin.xml class and add the all jar files in single say lib folder and zip them all together.. if yes then What changes I need to do?? Need to add only the plugin tags for different class files in plugin.xml file? OR need to do some thing extra also...?
3) If i need to change any thing in any class of event handler.. Is there need to unregister the plugin and again register...??
If yes.... Is there need to delete the event handler using the weblogicDeleteMetadata command???
4) As we Import the event handler from path like event handler/db/... If we add all the evetn handler.xml files in that folder..... As During Import weblogicImportMetadata recursively call all the files in that folder.... Now if i need to change anything in any one of event handler class... then if we import from the same folder event handler/db/... What will it do............Create the duplicate copy of all the eventhandlers????? OR i need to add only those Eventhandler.xml files for those class files i made the changes.....
5) As I need to create email on user creation during recon and also email id get updated as first name or last name updates..... What I had to use in Event handler.xml (entity-type="User" operation="CREATE") or Some thing else....
Help me clarify my doubts...

Answer 1

Anil Bansal wrote:
Hi,
I had some doubts on Event handlers in OIM 11.1.1.5 ........
1) I want to use the same event handler for both Post Insert and Post update task.... Can I use the same event handler for that... If yes then how can I do that....Yes, you can have the same. Just have two event handlers in the same MDS file and the operation should be CREATE for one while MODIFY for another. The class and version and name remains the same.
2) Can I create the single Plugin.xml class and add the all jar files in single say lib folder and zip them all together.. if yes then What changes I need to do?? Need to add only the plugin tags for different class files in plugin.xml file? OR need to do some thing extra also...?Yes, in the single plugin xml you can define multiple eventhandlers and the jar will contain multiple event handlers class.
3) If i need to change any thing in any class of event handler.. Is there need to unregister the plugin and again register...??
If yes.... Is there need to delete the event handler using the weblogicDeleteMetadata command???No, if you are just changing the class, then you need to update the class only in the plugin. For this, first delete plugin and then update plugin and then purgecache.
4) As we Import the event handler from path like event handler/db/... If we add all the evetn handler.xml files in that folder..... As During Import weblogicImportMetadata recursively call all the files in that folder.... Now if i need to change anything in any one of event handler class... then if we import from the same folder event handler/db/... What will it do............Create the duplicate copy of all the eventhandlers????? OR i need to add only those Eventhandler.xml files for those class files i made the changes.....If won't create duplicate copies but would overwrite the ones which are there in MDS at the same location. So effectively, if the xml is not changing you should not be worried about overwritting.
5) As I need to create email on user creation during recon and also email id get updated as first name or last name updates..... What I had to use in Event handler.xml (entity-type="User" operation="CREATE") or Some thing else....For recon and event handler, you will need to have post process event handler on User CREATE and UPDATE. On Create construct the email address and populate it in the email field. For update check if the firstname/lastname are changing and if yes, then update the email id on the profile.
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Help me clarify my doubts...