What's New In This Guide

This preface provides a summary of new features and updates to Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3.0).

Follow the pointers into this guide to get more information about the features and how to use them. This document is the new edition of the formerly titled Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Identity Manager.

Updates in January 2019 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager contains bug fixes and editorial corrections.

Updates in July 2018 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

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Updates in April 2018 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager contains bug fixes and editorial corrections.

Updates in January 2018 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager includes the following update:

Updates in December 2017 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager includes the following update:

Updates in October 2017 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager contains bug fixes and editorial corrections.

Updates in January 2017 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager contains bug fixes and editorial corrections.

Updates in October 2016 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager contains the following updates:

This revision also contains bug fixes and editorial corrections.

Updates in July 2016 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager contains bug fixes and editorial corrections.

Updates in January 2016 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager contains bug fixes and editorial corrections.

Updates in August 2015 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3.0)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager contains bug fixes and editorial corrections.

Updates in June 2015 Documentation Refresh for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3.0)

This revision of Developing and Customizing Applications for Oracle Identity Manager contains bug fixes and editorial corrections.

New and Changed Features for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3.0)

Oracle Identity Manager 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3.0) includes the following new and changed development features for this document.

  • Identity REST services that are based on the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) protocol, which provides functionality for self-service, user, role/group, organization, and password policy management. See Chapter 21, "Using SCIM/REST Services".

Other Significant Changes in this Document for 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3.0)

For 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3.0), this guide has been updated in several ways. Following are the sections that have been added or changed.

  • Removed information about Oracle Identity Manager overview and architecture.

  • Removed information about security architecture in Oracle Identity Manager as the authorization and security model in Oracle Identity Manager 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.3.0) works on the basis of the custom admin role assignment to a user. See "Managing Admin Roles" section in Performing Self Service Tasks with Oracle Identity Manager.

  • Moved information about creating and managing Generic Technology Connectors to Administering Oracle Identity Manager. See "Managing Generic Connectors" section in that book.

  • Removed information about Segregation of Duties (SoD) as audit violations and SoD is managed in this release by using the Identity Audit feature. See "Managing Identity Audit" in Performing Self Service Tasks with Oracle Identity Manager.

    However, SoD check with Oracle Application Access Controls Governor (OAACG) is supported for backward compatibility. For information about SoD check with OAACG 8.6.5, refer to the following URL:

    https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E40329_01/dev.1112/e27150/segduties.htm#OMDEV3109

  • Revised procedures for customizing the interface, as a result of the new UI in Oracle Identity Self Service. See Chapter 19, "Customizing the Interface".

  • Removed information about using SPML services as SPML is not supported in this release.

  • Removed information about the callback service as it is not supported in this release.

  • Removed information about Oracle Identity Manager customization by using the Design Console as various Design Console operations have been deprecated in this release.