224 z/TPF and WebSphere Application Server in a Service Oriented Architecture
One component of this solution would be something that could manager the userid and
password and serve up the validation quickly. This would be the LDAP server, on your z/TPF
host. The issue now is that you wish to communicate to this central host from any number of
other systems, each of those other systems running any number of variations of operating
systems (from any number of vendors). That is where SOA comes in — SOA’s purpose is to
allow like, and unlike, systems to communicate.
Therefore, and again as an example, if you use LDAP on your z/TPF system to do the
verification, and you SOA enable your z/TPF (and other) systems, you have a solution that
allows y ...