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Using the LDAP wrapper with InfoSphere Federation Server

Leverage and integrate your directory data in an SQL environment

Yun Feng Sun (sunyunf@cn.ibm.com), Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Yun Feng Sun is an Advisory Software Engineer at the IBM China Software Development Lab. He currently works for the development team on the IBM InfoSphere Federation Server product.

Eileen Lin (etlin@us.ibm.com), Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM

Dr. Eileen Lin is a Senior Technical Staff Member in Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. She is one of the original members responsible for the success of DataJoiner, a federated database product that is the predecessor of the federation technology in DB2. Currently, she is the lead architect for WebSphere Federation Server. Dr. Lin has many patents covering areas such as federation technology, query optimization and parallel query processing.

Art Kaufmann (artkauf@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Art Kaufmann is a senior software engineer working in information integration through federation and Web services. Art is technical lead for the SOA and Federation team responsible for the wrapper SDK.

Martin Klumpp (maklumpp@us.ibm.com), Technical Lead, Software Engineer, IBM

Martin Klumpp is a technical lead for the InfoSphere FastTrack product and is located at IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California. He participated in the LDAP wrapper design and development in 2005.

Xing Yu Liu, Software Engineer Intern, IBM

Xing Yu Liu was a software engineer intern at the IBM China Software Development Lab and was involved into the LDAP wrapper development.

Summary: The LDAP wrapper is a pure Java™ package that is based on InfoSphere™ Federation Server Java wrapper SDK technology. By providing read-only access to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory servers in an SQL environment, the LDAP wrapper facilitates the integration and connectivity between business data in a relational database and human resource data in the LDAP directory server.

Date: 23 Sep 2010
Level: Introductory
PDF: A4 and Letter (106 KB | 32 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

About this tutorial

This tutorial introduces a Java-based LDAP wrapper that helps InfoSphere Federation Server access and integrate LDAP directory data. The tutorial starts by highlighting the business value of the wrapper, then states the detailed steps of using the wrapper, and follows up with a simple scenario to join LDAP data with other enterprise data. The binary code of the LDAP wrapper is available for download in the Download section.

Objectives

This tutorial shows you how to configure and use the LDAP wrapper with InfoSphere Federation Server to read directory data in the LDAP directory server. After you've done this, you are able to join and union data in your LDAP directory server with other corporate data accessible to your federated database.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is written using InfoSphere Federation Server and LDAP directory server. You should have general familiarity with LDAP, relational databases, and InfoSphere Federation Server concepts, including federated server, wrapper, server definition, user mapping, and nicknames.

System requirements

To complete the steps in this tutorial, you need to install the following software:

InfoSphere Federation Server: This tutorial is based on InfoSphere Federation Server Version 9.5. InfoSphere Federation Server v9.1 and v9.7 can also be used. For details, see the InfoSphere Federation Server website.
LDAP directory server: This tutorial is based on the Tivoli Directory Server V6.0. For details, see the Tivoli Directory Server website. However, any LDAP v3 compatible LDAP directory server can be used.