How to fetch operational attributes from LDAP

There are some attributes that are used by LDAP to populate the data by it self. These are not fetched by default using context adapter. We need to explicitly mention the attributes that we want to fetch. For this we can simply use the ldapTemplate search method or look up method. It may be better to go with search

ldapTemplate.search(Base,search Criteria, scope, operationalAttrbs[], contextMapper);

OIM Client: Some important methods

Today we had some requirements on creating password policies like for password expire, change password. After going through SPML web services, OIM client proved to e a useful api. It provided all the method for changing password, create user and many more. After creating password policy using OIM design console and applying those policies using usage object tab, it was quite handful to use oim clinet jar to call password reset and many other operations.