Patent ID: 7240125
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a web server application residing in memory and executed by the at least one processor, the web server comprising an input and formatting mechanism that receives data from a web page presented to a user and that formats the data into an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document; a formatting mechanism residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor that receives the XML document and that generates therefrom the data in a second format; a directory service server residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor that accesses a directory that has a plurality of entries, the plurality of entries including at least one entry that contains user registry information; and a directory service client residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor that receives the data in the second format and generates therefrom at least one command to the directory service server to provide the user registry information in the directory to the web server application to authenticate and authorize the user to access the web server application; wherein the input and formatting mechanism comprises a servlet that formats the data into the XML document and wherein the formatting mechanism comprises a Java bean that uses an Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) stylesheet to convert the Extensible Markup Language (XML) document into a Directory Service Markup Language (DSML) document.