Oracle Internet Directory Application Developer’s Guide

Smith R.

Oracle Internet Directory Application Developer’s Guide provides information for enabling applications to access Oracle Internet Directory by using the C API and the PL/SQL API.Oracle Internet Directory Application Developer’s Guide is for application developers who wish to enable applications to store and update directory information in an Oracle Internet Directory server. It is also intended for anyone who wants to know how the Oracle Internet Directory C API and PL/SQL API work.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 5
Send Us Your Comments……Page 9
Preface……Page 11
1 Introduction……Page 19
Other Components of Oracle Internet Directory……Page 20
Operating Systems Supported……Page 21
2 Concepts……Page 23
LDAP Naming Model……Page 24
LDAP Information Model……Page 26
LDAP Security Model……Page 28
About the Oracle Internet Directory API……Page 33
Initializing the Session by Using the C API……Page 36
Initializing the Session by Using DBMS_LDAP……Page 37
Enabling Authentication to a Directory Server by Using the C API……Page 38
Enabling Authentication to a Directory Server by Using DBMS_LDAP……Page 39
Searching by Using DBMS_LDAP……Page 40
Flow of Search-Related Operations……Page 41
Search Scope……Page 44
Filters……Page 45
Enabling Session Termination by Using DBMS_LDAP……Page 46
3 The Oracle Internet Directory C API……Page 47
Oracle Internet Directory SDK C API SSL Extensions……Page 48
Summary of LDAP C API……Page 50
Functions……Page 54
Initializing an LDAP Session……Page 55
LDAP Session Handle Options……Page 56
Working With Controls……Page 61
Authenticating to the Directory……Page 63
Closing the Session……Page 66
Performing LDAP Operations……Page 67
Abandoning an Operation……Page 88
Obtaining Results and Peeking Inside LDAP Messages……Page 89
Handling Errors and Parsing Results……Page 92
Stepping Through a List of Results……Page 95
Parsing Search Results……Page 96
C API Usage with SSL……Page 107
C API Usage Without SSL……Page 108
Building a Sample Search Tool……Page 109
Dependencies and Limitations……Page 122
4 The Oracle Internet Directory PL/SQL API……Page 125
Using the PL/SQL API from a Database Trigger……Page 126
Using the PL/SQL API for a Search……Page 134
Building Applications with PL/SQL LDAP API……Page 137
Summary of Subprograms……Page 138
Exception Summary……Page 141
Data-Type Summary……Page 143
Subprograms……Page 144
5 Command-Line Tools Syntax……Page 203
LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) Syntax……Page 204
Command-Line Tools Syntax……Page 206
ldapadd Syntax……Page 207
ldapaddmt Syntax……Page 209
ldapbind Syntax……Page 211
ldapcompare Syntax……Page 212
ldapdelete Syntax……Page 213
ldapmoddn Syntax……Page 215
ldapmodify Syntax……Page 217
ldapmodifymt Syntax……Page 222
ldapsearch Syntax……Page 224
Catalog Management Tool Syntax……Page 229
Glossary……Page 231
Index……Page 255