Preface

Oracle Identity Management Application Developer's Guide explains how to modify applications to work with the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure. For the purposes of this book, this infrastructure consists of Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Delegated Administration Services, and the Directory Integration Platform.

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Structure

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

The following readers can benefit from this book:

• Developers who want to integrate applications with the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure. This process involves storing and updating information in an Oracle Internet Directory server. It also involves modifying applications to work with mod_osso, an authentication module on the Oracle HTTP Server.

• Anyone who wants to learn about the LDAP APIs and Oracle extensions to these APIs.

Documentation Accessibility

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Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

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Structure

Part I, Programming for Oracle Identity Management

Chapter 1, "Developing Applications for Oracle Identity Management"

Takes a high level look at how to integrate applications with the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure. Introduces the reader to the Oracle Internet Directory Software Developer's Kit 10g Release 2 (10.1.2). Provides an overview of how an application can use the kit to integrate with the directory.

Chapter 2, "Developing Applications with Standard LDAP APIs"

Provides a brief overview of all of the major operations available in the C API and the PL/SQL API. Provides developers a general understanding of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) from a perspective independent of the API.

Chapter 3, "Developing Applications with Oracle Extensions to the Standard APIs"

Explains the concepts behind Oracle extensions to LDAP APIs. Describes the abstract entities that are modeled by the extensions as well as the usage model of the Oracle extensions.

Chapter 4, "Developing Provisioning-Integrated Applications"

Explains how to develop applications that can use the Oracle Directory Provisioning Integration Service in the Oracle Directory Integration and Provisioning platform. These applications can be either legacy applications or third-party applications that are based on the Oracle platform.

Chapter 5, "Developing Directory Plug-ins"

Explains how to use the plug-in framework for Oracle Internet Directory to facilitate custom development.

Chapter 6, "Integrating with Oracle Delegated Administration Services"

Explains how developers can use the DAS URL to integrate with Oracle Delegated Administration Services.

Chapter 7, "Developing Applications for Single Sign-On"

Explains how the HTTP authentication module mod_osso protects applications enabled by OracleAS Single Sign-On. Provides code that demonstrates how applications are integrated with mod_osso.

Part II Oracle Internet Directory API Reference

Chapter 8, "C API Reference"

Introduces the standard C API. Provides examples of how to use it.

Chapter 9, " DBMS_LDAP PL/SQL Reference"

Introduces the DBMS_LDAP package, which enables PL/SQL programmers to access data from LDAP servers. Provides examples of how to use DBMS_LDAP.

Chapter 10, "Java API Reference"

Directs readers to the Java APIs for Oracle Internet Directory. Provides a link to the standard API and a link to the Oracle extensions.

Chapter 11, "DBMS_LDAP_UTL PL/SQL Reference"

Contains reference material for the DBMS_LDAP_UTL package, which extends the DBMS_LDAP package.

Chapter 12, "DAS_URL Interface Reference"

Describes the Oracle extensions to the DAS_URL API.

Chapter 13, "Provisioning Integration API Reference"

Contains reference information for the Directory Integration and Provisioning Platform API.

Part III Appendixes

Appendix A, "Syntax for LDIF and Command-Line Tools"

Provides syntax, usage notes, and examples for using LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) and LDAP command line tools

Appendix B, "DSML Syntax"

Provides syntax and usage notes for DSML (XML) integration.

Glossary

Defines terms used in this book.

Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Identity Management Concepts and Deployment Planning Guide

• Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Identity Management Integration Guide

• Oracle Identity Management Guide to Delegated Administration

• Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On Administrator's Guide

• PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference

• Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals

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To access the database documentation search engine directly, please visit

http://tahiti.oracle.com

For additional information, see:

• Chadwick, David. Understanding X.500—The Directory. Thomson Computer Press, 1996.

• Howes, Tim and Mark Smith. LDAP: Programming Directory-enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997.

• Howes, Tim, Mark Smith and Gordon Good, Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999.

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority home page, http://www.iana.org, for information about object identifiers

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) documentation available at: http://www.ietf.org, especially:

  • The LDAPEXT charter and LDAP drafts

  • The LDUP charter and drafts

  • RFC 2254, "The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters"

  • RFC 1823, "The LDAP Application Program Interface"

• The OpenLDAP Community, http://www.openldap.org

Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this documentation set. It describes:

• Conventions in Text

• Conventions in Code Examples

• Conventions for Windows Operating Systems

Conventions in Text

We use various conventions in text to help you more quickly identify special terms. The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.

Conventions in Code Examples

Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:

SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';

The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and provides examples of their use.

[ ]

DECIMAL (digits [ , precision ])

{ }

{ENABLE | DISABLE}

|

{ENABLE | DISABLE}
[COMPRESS | NOCOMPRESS]

...

CREATE TABLE ... AS subquery;

SELECT col1, col2, ... , coln FROM employees;

acctbal NUMBER(11,2);
acct    CONSTANT NUMBER(4) := 3;

Italics

CONNECT SYSTEM/system_password
DB_NAME = database_name

UPPERCASE

SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees;
SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES;
DROP TABLE hr.employees;

lowercase

SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees;
sqlplus hr/hr
CREATE USER mjones IDENTIFIED BY ty3MU9;

Conventions for Windows Operating Systems

The following table describes conventions for Windows operating systems and provides examples of their use.

C:\oracle\oradata>

C:\>exp HR/HR TABLES=employees QUERY=\"WHERE job_id='SA_REP' and salary<8000\"

HOME_NAME

C:\> net start OracleHOME_NAMETNSListener