Netscape Application Server

Outline

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

Description

This course is part of a series on Netscape Servers. This course begins with an overview of Directory Server and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Next, the functions, filters, attributes, and customization of the HTML Gateway is covered. Finally, students will learn about LDAP client development in Java.

Audience

The intended audience for this course is developers and corporate IT personnel who wish to learn about Netscape Directory Server and how to LDAP enable applications. This course assumes prior knowledge of Internet standards and Web technologies including: Web application development, forms-based Web applications, CGI, Java or C/C++, and relational database technology. In addition, participants should have taken Introduction to Netscape Servers (course 85511).

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Identify the problems associated with duplicate application data in a network.
• Identify the way Netscape Directory Server solves the problems associated with duplicate application data in a network.
• Understand how the functions, filters and attributes, and customization of the HTML Gateway can be accomplished.
• Create and modify various clients using LDAP SDK for Java.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Directory Server and LDAP Overview

• Identify the characteristics of an Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service.
• Select the characteristics of Netscape Directory Server architecture.
• Match the data planning activity with its description.
• Match the design focus area with the design task.
• Match the object class concepts of Netscape Directory Server with their definitions.
• Identify the considerations for performing a phased deployment of a directory service.
• Identify how supplier and consumer servers support replication.
• Perform the steps to configure a server for directory tree replication.

Unit 2: HTML Gateway

• Match Gateway files with their function.
• Perform the steps to add an additional document directory.
• Perform the steps to add a CGI directory using Enterprise Server.
• Sequence the steps to set up a directory manager for the Gateway in Directory server.
• Select the standard port numbers associated with LDAP and LDAPS communications.
• Perform the steps to configure Communicator 4.x's browser for a preferred language using the Preferences menu.
• Match entry type parameter with its description.
• Perform the steps to map a newtype parameter to a location parameter in the dsgw.conf file.
• Perform the steps to add an attribute value to the Gateway display using the DS_ATTRIBUTE directive.
• Perform the steps to add an attribute to an object class using the DS_ATTRIBUTE directive.
• Perform the steps to add an attribute to an object class using the DS_ATTRIBUTE directive.
• Perform the steps to extend an object class by modifying an existing object class template using the DS_OBJECTCLASS and DS_ATTRIBUTE direct.
• Identify the search and filter files that control how the Gateway searches for objects.
• Perform the steps to add an additional attribute to the search preferences in the dsgwsearchprefs.conf file.
• Match the search object with the search result template used.
• Perform the steps to add information to a search result template using the table heading tag and the DS_ATTRIBUTE directive.
• Select the five files that need to be modified when updating banner and button images.
• Select the color attributes of a Gateway form that can be changed using HTML.

Unit 3: LDAP Client Development in Java

• Match Java class packages with their descriptions.
• Sequence the steps of LDAP client creations.
• Perform the steps to connect to an LDAP server.
• Perform the steps to write a client that sends a search request by invoking the search method.
• Perform the steps to retrieve an entry by invoking the next method of a LDAPSearchResults object.
• Perform the steps to retrieve a filter from a filter configuration file.
• Perform the steps to add an entry to a directory.
• Perform the steps to replace an attribute value for an entry in a directory.
• Perform the steps to write a client that compares a specified value against an entry's attribute.

Duration

8 Hours

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and XXMB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

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