What's New in Oracle Internet Directory Software Developer's Kit?

This section provides a brief description of new features introduced with the latest releases of the Oracle Internet Directory Software Developer's Kit, and points you to more information about each one.

New Features in Oracle Internet Directory Release 9.0.4

• Oracle Delegated Administration Services URL API

  This API enables you to build administrative and self-service consoles that can be used by delegated administrators and users to perform specified directory operations.

  See Also: Chapter 6, "Developing Applications Integrated with Oracle Delegated Administration Services"

• PL/SQL API Enhancements--These enhancements include:
  • New functions introduced in LDAP v3 standard. These were previously available in the core C-API, and are now made available through PL/SQL.

  • Functions to enable proxied access to middle-tier applications

  • Functions to create and manage provisioning profiles in the Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning platform

    See Also: Chapter 4, "Developing Provisioning-Integrated Applications"

• External authentication plug-in support--This feature enables administrators to use Microsoft Active Directory for storing and managing security credentials used by Oracle components.

  See Also: Chapter 5, "Developing Oracle Internet Directory Server Plug-ins"

• Server discovery using DNS--This feature enables Oracle Internet Directory clients to discover the host name and port number of the Oracle directory server running in a given enterprise. It reduces the administrative costs of maintaining Oracle Internet Directory clients in large deployments.

  See Also: "Server Discovery Functionality"

• Support for XML interface (DSML 1.0) OID SDK and tools--This feature enables LDAP tools to process XML as well as LDIF. APIs in Oracle Internet Directory can programmatically manipulate results and operations in DSML format.

  See Also: Link to relevant chapter or section for New_Feature_5

• Client side referral caching--This new feature enables clients to cache referral information and use it to speed up referral processing.

  See Also: "LDAP Session Handle Options"