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CMS SDK
Internal LDAP Database
CMS employs Netscape Directory Server as its internal database for storing
information such as certificates, requests, users, roles, ACLs, as well as other
miscellaneous internal information. CMS communicates with the internal LDAP
database securely by means of SSL client authentication.
Administration Server
The Netscape Administration Server comes with all Netscape server products,
including CMS. Together with the Netscape Console and the configuration LDAP
database (another instance of Netscape Directory Server), it is used for managing
Netscape software and users in an enterprise environment. The configuration
LDAP database stores server and application configuration settings as well as user
information. This data is used by other servers in the enterprise. Typically,
application and server configuration information is stored in one subtree of the
configuration LDAP database while user and group entries are stored in another
subtree. Except for the creation of a new CMS instances, functionalities provided
by this component are not fully utilized by CMS. Note that although this
configuration LDAP database can be used to store Enterprise user records, or
configured as a certificate publishing destination, or configured to provide
directory-based enrollment authentication mechanism, it is separate from the CMS
Internal LDAP database, and unlike the CMS Internal LDAP database, it is not
considered as part of the core CMS system.
CMS SDK
The CMS Software Development Kit (SDK) includes information that is useful for
developing new plug-in modules and for customizing various aspects of CMS.
The CMS SDK contains the following:
•
Javadocs—complete javadoc specification of the CMS Application
Programming Interface (API).
•
Samples—sample source code of various plug-in modules that are included in
CMS. This source code has been included for reference purposes only, and is
only used to demonstrate how a particular CMS feature was implemented.
Since a sample represents the actual code currently present in CMS, it does not
require it to be recompiled.
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