Sams Teach Yourself BEA WebLogic Server 7.0™ in 21 Days
by Mandar S. Chitnis, Lakshmi Ananthamurthy, Pravin S. Tiwari
Directory Service Concepts
The primary functionality of the naming service is to map logical names to objects. A directory service extends these capabilities of the naming service by storing meaningful attributes along with the objects. These attributes can be used to search in the directory service for stored objects. A directory service is essentially a simple database that provides the ability to query and search based on filters.
Figure 9.5 shows a typical directory service with server objects registering themselves with the directory service using name identifiers and attributes and client applications obtaining the server object reference by querying the directory service with the name identifier and attributes used by the server objects. ...
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