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LDAP Request Processing

An LDAP request from a client interface always includes two items of information:

• The type of the request
• The DN of an object that the request targets

The Partition Loader Service detects incoming DNs, and creates and registers endpoint types and connectors when required, and as such is referred to as the front end of the Java CS architecture. The Partition Loader Service then passes LDAP requests back to the core ApacheDS serviced. As connectors are registered as ApacheDS partitions, they receive requests that fall into their subtree of the ApacheDS DIT.

Java CS can host any number of endpoint types, each of which is associated with a single metadata definition. Each can contain any number of connector instances (each of which is associated with a single set of connection details).