Chapter 72. Organization Service

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Chapter 72. Organization Service

72.1. Overview

72.2. Organizational Model

72.2.1. User
72.2.2. Group
72.2.3. Membership

72.3. Related articles and how-tos

72.1. Overview

OrganizationService is the service that allows to access the Organization model. This model is composed of :

Users
Groups
Memberships

It is the basis of eXo personalization and authorizations in eXo and is used to all over the platform. The model is abstract and does not rely on any specific storage. Multiple implementations exist in eXo :

Hibernate : for storage into a RDBMS
Jndi : for storage into a directory such as an LDAP or MS Active Directory
Jcr : for storage inside a Java Content Repository

72.2. Organizational Model

72.2.1. User

Username used as the identified
Profile (identity and preferences)

72.2.2. Group

Gather a set of users

Applicative or business
Tree structure
No inheritance
Expressed as /group/subgroup/subsubgroup

72.2.3. Membership

Qualifies the group belonging
"Member of group as XXX"
Expressed as : manager:/organization/hr, *:/partners

72.3. Related articles and how-tos

JCR Organization Service