3 Integrating the Oracle Virtual Directory

Oracle Virtual Directory combines user data from multiple data sources to create an aggregated virtual directory.

From the point of view of Oracle Access Manager applications, the virtual directory looks and behaves just like any other LDAP directory, and the Oracle Access Manager user usually does not receive any obvious indications that the data retrieved by Oracle Access Manager has come from heterogeneous sources.

From the perspective of the target data store owners, the impact of Oracle Virtual Directory is minimal. The data store owners do not relinquish ownership of their data, Oracle Virtual Directory does not reformat the native data structures, and no permanent copies of the original data are maintained by Oracle Virtual Directory.

From the perspective of the administrator, Oracle Virtual Directory enables you to use multiple data sources for Oracle Access Manager.

Much of this integration is accomplished during product installation and setup. For this reason, the details of integrating Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Virtual Directory are provided in the Oracle Access Manager Installation Guide.