Thursday, October 17, 2002

eDirectory 8.7 Beth Cohen of Internet.com highlights some of the features in Novell's eDirectory 8.7: Publisher Channel - Sends data from various systems to eDirectory. Subscriber Channel.- Sends data from eDirectory to various systems. DirXML Driver - Handles the communication between DirXML engine and the application but not the rule processing. This includes receiving the XML document and translating it into a set of commands, which are then sent to the appropriate data store. Note that DirXML 1.1 no longer requires eDirectory and DirXML running on the server allowing remote drivers to be dynamically loaded. DirXML Engine - Translates directory events such as add, modify, or delete to an XML document. Translation involves processing various filters, rules, and style sheets to achieve the desired result. Objects - eDirectory operations involve certain key objects, DirXML-DriverSet, DirXML-Driver, DirXML-Publisher, and DirXML-Subscriber. Filters - determine which attributes such as name or address will be affected for this particular channel session. Rules Sets Object mapping - Associates an object in the eDirectory schema with an object in the external application. Matching - Determines the attributes and values in eDirectory and the corresponding application that must match before creating an association attribute. Create Object - Specifies the attribute and values that must be in place before a new object or record is created. Placement - Specifies the location in the application the objects are stored. Multiple rules are typically used. XSLT Style sheets - Define the XLST transformation rules that transforms commands or directory events found in the XML documents. Meanwhile, we are implementing RSS gadgets as part of our new intranet implementation.  Now if we can only get State agencies to build and maintain the feeds. 1:51:03 PM

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