Preface

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.

Audience

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.

Organization

Chapter 1, "Introduction"	Briefly describes the intended audience and components of Oracle Internet Directory Software Developer's Kit Release 2.1.1. It also lists the other components of Oracle Internet Directory and the platforms it supports.
Chapter 2, "C API"	Introduces the Oracle Internet Directory C API and provides examples of how to use it
Chapter 3, "PL/SQL API"	Introduces the PL/SQL API contained in a PL/SQL package called DBMS_LDAP. It also contains examples of how to use it.
Chapter 4, "Command Line Tools Syntax"	Provides syntax, usage notes, and examples for using LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) and LDAP command line tools

Related Documentation

Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide.

Oracle8i documentation set

Chadwick, David. Understanding X.500 The Directory. Thomson Computer Press, 1996. This book is now out of print, but is available online at: http://www.salford.ac.uk/its024/Version.Web/Contents.htm

Hodges, Jeff, Staff Scientist, Oblix, Inc., http://www.kingsmountain.com/ldapRoadmap.shtml

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.

Kosiur, Dave, LDAP: "The next-generation directory?," SunWorld Online, October 1997.

Radicati, Sara, X.500 Directory Services, Technology and Deployment, International Thomson Computer Press, 1994.

University of Michigan LDAP Repository, http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/index.html

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual:

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