| The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ( LDAP) is taking on increasing significance in the Oracle world. Beginning with Release 8.1.6, Oracle has built support into Net8 for the use of LDAP as a name resolution method. LDAP is now preferred over Oracle Names in cases where you need a centralized repository for net service names . Oracle has also released the Oracle Internet Directory (OID)a high-performance LDAP server based on the Oracle8 i database. This chapter introduces LDAP and then shows you how to make it work with Net8. |