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e-mails, records updated in certain databases, incoming HTML pages from a<br />

Web server or browser, arriving Web services-based Simple Object Access<br />

Protocol (SOAP) messages, as well as other types of events defined by the<br />

user.<br />

► Parsers to interpret and translate information from a byte stream into a<br />

structured information object, where each piece of information is accessible<br />

by name. You can also translate a structured information object into a byte<br />

stream. You can select from the wide range of extensible parsers such as<br />

comma-separated values, fixed column, LDAP Data Interchange Format<br />

(LDIF), Extensible Markup Language (XML), SOAP, and Directory Services<br />

Markup Language (DSML), or you can create a new parser from scratch.<br />

► Hooks that enable the definition of certain actions to be executed under<br />

specific circumstances, or at desired points in the execution of the<br />

AssemblyLine process.<br />

► Link Criteria, which are the attribute matching rules between two (or more)<br />

directories. Link Criteria may be simple, such as comparing if string(a) =<br />

string(b), or complex, using scripts to perform transformation functions<br />

required for the comparison such as f(a) = (b). The built-in Directory Integrator<br />

link comparison functions are: “equals,” “not equals,” “contains,” “starts with,”<br />

and “ends with.” Any other comparison operation must be done using a<br />

custom script.<br />

► Work Entries, which are internal variable names used to temporarily store<br />

values from directory entries. The values may be read directly from specific<br />

attributes, or may be computed by a Java or perl script that inputs multiple<br />

attributes and performs some string data manipulation or transformation.<br />

Directory Integrator eliminates the time and expense typically required to custom<br />

develop connection interfaces for a wide variety of data repositories. The built-in<br />

connectors provided (subject to change) include:<br />

– Btree Object DB Connector<br />

– Command Line Connector<br />

– Domino Users Connector<br />

– File System<br />

– FTP Client Connector<br />

– Old HTTP Client Connector<br />

– HTTP Client Connector<br />

– Old HTTP Server Connector<br />

– HTTP Server Connector<br />

– <strong>IBM</strong> MQ Series (JMS)<br />

– <strong>IBM</strong> Directory Changelog Connector<br />

– JMS Connector<br />

– JNDI<br />

– LDAP<br />

Chapter 8. Directory strategies 333

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