The Grouper Book was started in 2011 but not completed. It aimed to provide documentation on Grouper which can take people from beginner to expert. It aimed to supplemented and summarize existing documentation, simplifying and provide background where appropriate. Contributions and comments from the Grouper community are welcome.

Sections on the Wiki will be marked in one of 4 stages:

Blank - no real content yet
Draft - initial drafts
Reviewed - has been reviewed for accuracy (technical and linguistic)
Completed - finished (at least for the current version)

Part 2 - Grouper core
- Case studies - blank
  - Cardiff University - draft
- Getting started with the quickstart- draft
  - Installing the quickstart - Linux- draft
    - Installing a JDK - draft
    - Installing the RPM version of the JDK - draft
    - Installing the self-extracting version of the JDK - draft
    - Installing Tomcat - draft
    - Installing Apache Ant - draft
    - Setting up the quick start - draft
    - Starting the quickstart - draft
  - Installing the quickstart - Windows- draft
    - Installing a JDK - draft
    - Installing Tomcat - draft
    - Installing Apache Ant - draft
    - Setting up the quick start - draft
    - Starting the quick start - draft
- Exploring Grouper - draft
  - Find a folder or a group by navigation - draft
  - Find an entity or a group by searching - draft
  - Read a group's membership list - draft
  - Add a member (entity or group) to a group - draft
  - Remove a member from a group - draft
  - Assign someone to be able to manage a group - draft
  - Create a new group - draft
  - Create a composite group - draft
  - Create a new folder - draft
  - Assign someone to be able to create new folders or groups within a parent folder -draft
  - Accessing the "Lite" UI directly -draft
- Moving to production - draft
  - Key questions to consider - draft
  - Installation of core components
  - Development with a configure-deploy-test-review cycle - draft
  - Setting up the repository database - draft
  - Connecting to a subject source - draft
  - Installing an application server and the Grouper UI - draft
  - Detailed planning prior to live deployment - link to existing page
  - Deployment and testing in live - draft
- Running in production - Grouper loader - draft
  - Monitoring - draft
  - Management using GSH - link to existing page
  - Management using the API - draft
- Upgrading Grouper - draft

Part 3 - Getting more from Grouper
- Web service - draft
  - CXF web service client - draft
- Accessing data and provisioning from Grouper
  - LDAPPC-NG - draft
  - API Hooks - blank
  - Change Log - blank
  - ESB - blank
- Provisioning to Grouper - blank
  - Grouper Loader - blank
  - API - blank
  - ESB - blank
- Other services - blank
- Integrating Grouper - blank
- Community Contributions

Part 4 - Deep dive into Grouper
- Inside Grouper - blank
- High availability - blank
- Developing for Grouper - blank

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