The ODBC, JDBC, and ADO Clients can connect directly to an OpenAccess SDK Server or retrieve connection information from a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory. LDAP is a standard protocol for accessing and updating common directory information. Storing connection information centrally in an LDAP directory provides flexibility to make environment changes and reduces the time it takes to reconfigure your infrastructure when a change takes place.
For example, if a database must be moved to a different server, you do not have to reconfigure the user applications or the client data sources that must now access the new server. Because the connection information is stored in an LDAP directory, you need only update the LDAP directory entries so that the OpenAccess SDK Clients can connect to the new server.
