Developing and Registering the Identity Plug-in

In this sub-module, you learn how to develop and register the Genie Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Identity plug-in.

As per Bill's request, Timothy has to enable secure searches.

You will watch Timothy develop an Identity plug-in to set up connections between Oracle Secure Enterprise Search and an identity management system to validate and authenticate users.

Timothy first develops the identity plug-in Java classes for the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) by implementing the two important interfaces - IdentityPlugin and IdentityPluginManager. He then packages the plug-in Java classes into a .jar file. Timothy finally registers the plug-in and activates it, thus enabling secure search.