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Standard way to make LDAP calls in ADF

user617801Mar 16 2015 — edited Mar 17 2015

Hi,

I am working in ADF 11.1.1.7.1 and have a requirement to integrate with LDAP. I need to create a UI to 'Reset User Password' in ADF. We do not have any api's/wsdl from LDAP team to integrate.

I am assuming I need to directly make LDAP calls to reset the password. I may extend this functionality in future for Provisioning, creating new pwd's etc.,

Please suggest me the best/standard/safe method to modify LDAP attributes. Any examples/blogs/articles would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Comments

dvohra21

Is LDAP used for authentication? Refer

http://mahmoudoracle.blogspot.ca/2012/02/adf-integration-with-ldap.html

http://www.johnbrunswick.com/2012/04/e2-0-workbench-podcast-7-ldap-search-portlet-for-webcenter-with-adf/

http://biemond.blogspot.ca/2008/12/using-weblogic-provider-as.html

http://andrejusb.blogspot.ca/2011/01/fusion-middleware-11g-security-retrieve.html

jflack

I've used two approaches for this, and either works, so choose what works for you.

One is to create a POJO that provides the LDAP services that you need.  You can do this with JNDI with classes that are part of the standard Java libraries - see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jndi/ldap/jndi.html for a good tutorial.  Or there are good LDAP libraries available that may make this a bit easier - I like UnboundId - see https://www.ldap.com/unboundid-ldap-sdk-for-java.  Once you've written your POJO in the Model project, you can expose its methods to ADF as a data control.

I've also built my LDAP interface in the database with the DBMS_LDAP built-in package.  You could then extend an Application Module to call it.  Or what I did was to create a package that shows LDAP information in a set of nested tables, then built views with INSTEAD OF triggers on top of the packages.  Then I created ADF BC Entity Objects and View Objects to expose this to my ADF application.

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