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• Central Authentication Service
• LDAP - Support built in to uPortal.
• PubCookie
• a nice illustrated explanation of the different authentication mechanisms via HTTP

Targeted Notifications

• Alerts - Built using Mule at University of Guelph. Summary and flow chart of Targeted Notifications - Targeted_Messaging_Using_Mule.doc

Groups

• LDAP - Support built in to uPortal.
• RDBMS - You will have to write a custom groups service or use PAGS.

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