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Cross-Protocol Integration
ChallengeIncreasingly identity data and application interactions need to be shared across a variety of platforms and protocols. This is particularly obvious with the rise of a massive range of webservices.
While a number of approaches to sharing identity information have slowly developed over time, very few systems actually cater to these requirements, and if they do they struggle to do so in a way that integrates easily.
Many XML based protocols have been developed to transmit information between applications over protocols such as HTTP (SOAP). And indeed, some systems simply expect information to be transmitted using standard HTTP POST and GET requests.
But how do you get your LDAP directory to interact with an external system using the protocol or correct markup to behave in the way that you need it to?
Solution
Symlabs Virtual Directory Server is perfectly geared to working in cross-protocol environments. It is fully capable of making use of HTTP, RDBMS and LDAP backend systems and can route requests to the appropriate destination using the correct protocol very easily. Equally, it is capable of supporting a wide variety of frontend protocols, allowing it to rapidly decode client operations and transform them into an alternate protocol on the fly.
Virtual Directory Server's DirectoryScript processing language has a complete SOAP wrapper, a complex XML parsing API and a variety of other features that allow you to quickly design a cross-protocol solution that can interact with a massive range of client applications and backend server-types.
It is relatively simple to construct a solution that can accept LDAP requests, transform them into XML and use SOAP to send them on to another third-party application, while allowing the original LDAP transaction to continue to a destination server within your organization. Allowing you to replicate operations across protocols.
Virtual Directory Server includes a very simple HTTP-capable scripting environment that allows you to build a web interface that can interact with any web-browser or SOAP capable-application and transform HTTP requests into operations suited to an alternate protocol, such as LDAP.
Symlabs Virtual Directory Server can also accept new extensions, so that a custom solution can be developed quickly to your exact requirements, and Symlabs can easily provide an intuitive graphical configuration interface to a highly bespoke cross-protocol solution.
Symlabs has extensive experience developing and designing cross-protocol solutions for its clients. If you're challenged with a situation where you need LDAP operations to be transformed into alternative protocol interactions, contact us and we will be sure to help you.