Novell, Inc.

Daniel Wallace Rapp

Nick N Nikols

Perin Blanchard

An application integration driver infrastructure for facilitating the use of a distributed directory running in a computer network is provided. The infrastructure can transform specific directory events into a vendor-neutral data identification system and then use vendor-neutral transformation technologies to transform the neutral data identification into a specific application's data format, and vice-versa. The infrastructure receives an event from the distributed directory into a markup language generation system, such as an extensible markup language ('XML') generator. The XML generator converts the event into XML data and provides the XML data to a transformation processing system, such as an extensible transformation language ('XSLT') processor. The XSLT processor transforms the XML data to a predetermined format. The format can be dictated by a stylesheet provided to the XSLT processor, the stylesheet being responsive to requirements of a computer application. The transformed data is then provided to the application for the application to use in a conventional manner. The application may use an application shim to convert the transformed data into a native application program interface (&#x201c;API&#x201d;) for the application.

Computer directory system having an application integration driver infrastructure

An improved system, method and database program is provided for automatically creating a replica of data distributed throughout a database onto a replica server. The method identifies an action to be performed on the data and/or a subset of objects of the data for receiving the action. A scope of the distributed database is determined, including a root of the database for accessing all of the data. With this information, a vector is created and provided to the root. As a result, the root can recursively inherit the vector down the distributed database to one or more branches until all of the data is accessed, so that the action can be performed on all the data.

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