adding users/categories from an external application

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I just installed 2.1.5 and I LOVE the SSO capability.
My question is this, I have an external application where I create/delete users. Is there a way to, at the same time, also create users in JForum.
I was thinking of sourcing in the appropriate java files and then calling the "addUser" function or something like that. Thanks so much.

Z-man
[originally posted on jforum.net by rzavi4jc]

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I do exactly what you describe for my application. I must, because I do not use SSO. What I did was simply define a new DataSource in my webapp (I am using Struts) and point it at the JForum DB. I then perform my own SQL directly on the database. Since I am doing only a few simple queries and one update, it is very simple code. Since the update is to store new users into the jforum_users table, and I know no other code is performing that step, I am fairly safe, with respent to concurrency.
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