LDAP Implementation Cookbook

1.5. The Framework for Creating Enterprise-Wide Solutions

As businesses incorporate Internet technologies into their core business processes, they start to achieve real business value. Today, companies large and small are using the Web to communicate with their partners, to connect with their back-end data systems, and to conduct electronic commerce. This is e-business where the strength and reliability of traditional information technology meet the Internet. The IBM Application Framework for e-business (Figure 4 on page 18) is designed to enable businesses to build and deploy applications based on Internet and Web technologies quickly and easily. To accomplish this goal, the architecture is based on open industry standards (like LDAP among ...