LDAP OS Design Development (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

LDAP Client for Windows Embedded CE supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) version 3.0, which is used to access the membership directory that stores names, addresses, phone numbers, and other types of information.

By selecting the LDAP Client Catalog item, you can integrate all the technologies required to implement an LDAP client on your run-time image. LDAP exposes an associated application programming interface (API) that simplifies writing directory service applications. The LDAP API is applicable to directory management and browser applications that do not have directory service support as their primary function. LDAP cannot create directories or specify how a directory service operates.

LDAP is a protocol designed to be a lightweight front-end to a X.500 directory or stand-alone directory service, such as Microsoft Active Directory®, over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). LDAP is a client-server protocol that enables users to locate a specific set of information and other resources, such as files and devices, on a network. Protocol elements are carried directly over TCP or UDP, thereby bypassing much of the session/presentation overhead that is required for other directory services, such as X.500. LDAP uses a lightweight basic encoding rule (BER) notation to encode all protocol elements.

OS Design Information

The following table shows operating system design information for LDAP Client.

Modules and Components

The following table shows the components and modules that implement LDAP Client.

LDAP Client Implementation Considerations

The following table shows the Sysgen variables that enable Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client.

Application Development Topics

LDAP Application Development

LDAP Directory Service

LDAP Security

LDAP Reference

See Also

Other Resources

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client
Common Windows Embedded CE Modules