Preface

Oracle Identity Management Application Developer's Guide explains how to modify applications to work with the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure. For the purposes of this book, this infrastructure consists of Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Delegated Administration Services, and the Directory Integration Platform.

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

The following readers can benefit from this book:

• Developers who want to integrate applications with the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure. This process involves storing and updating information in an Oracle Internet Directory server. It also involves modifying applications to work with mod_osso, an authentication module on the Oracle HTTP Server.

• Anyone who wants to learn about the LDAP APIs and Oracle extensions to these APIs.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Identity Management Concepts and Deployment Planning Guide

• Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Identity Management Integration Guide

• Oracle Identity Management Guide to Delegated Administration

• Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On Administrator's Guide

• PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference

• Oracle Database Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals

For additional information, see:

• Chadwick, David. Understanding X.500—The Directory. Thomson Computer Press, 1996.

• 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.

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority home page, http://www.iana.org, for information about object identifiers

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) documentation available at: http://www.ietf.org, especially:

  • The LDAPEXT charter and LDAP drafts

  • The LDUP charter and drafts

  • RFC 2254, "The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters"

  • RFC 1823, "The LDAP Application Program Interface"

• The OpenLDAP Community, http://www.openldap.org

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: