The new features of the Identity Governance Framework based Oracle APIs are listed here, for both the present release and the previous releases.
11g Release 1 (11.1.1) provides the Identity Directory API, a common service for identity management applications to access and manage identity information. The service can be used in both Java EE and Java SE modes. For more information, see Chapter 2, "Using the Identity Directory API". For information about migration to the Identity Directory API, see Chapter 4, "Migrating to Identity Directory API."