LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) - permalink
- A protocol used to access information directories. LDAP is designed to provide a common method for fast hierarchical searching e-mail addresses on the Internet. LDAP makes it possible for almost any application that is running on nearly any computer platform to obtain directory information, such as e-mail addresses, login names and passwords.
Oracle - Cite This Source - This Definition - The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol builds on TCP/IP to define a query-response protocol for querying the state of remote databases.
IBM - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Container, MPI (The Message Passing Interface), operation provider, ResourceHome, SLO (Service Level Objective), SOAP, SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), Web Services Notification (WSN), Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)