Active Roles SPML Provider terminology
Direct Access Mode
In this mode, SPML Provider directly connects to the specified domain or AD LDS instance.
Capabilities
A set of optional, functionally related operations defined in SPML v2.
Core Operations
The minimum set of operations that a provider must implement to conform to the official SPML v2 specification.
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
A meta-markup language that provides a format for describing structured data. This facilitates more precise declarations of content and more meaningful search results across multiple platforms. In addition, XML enables a new generation of Web-based data viewing and manipulation applications.
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
An international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business and Web service standards.
Provider
See Provisioning Service Provider.
Provisioning Service Object (PSO)
Represents a data entity or an information object on a target.
Provisioning Service Provider (PSP)
A software component that listens for, processes, and returns the results for well-formed SPML requests from a known requestor.
Provisioning Service Target (PST)
Represents a destination or endpoint that a provider makes available for provisioning actions.
Proxy Mode
In proxy mode, SPML Provider accesses directory data using the Active Roles proxy service.
Requesting Authority (RA)
A software component that issues well-formed SPML requests to a Provisioning Service Provider.
Requestor
See Requesting Authority.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
An XML/HTTP-based protocol for platform-independent access to objects and services on the Web. SOAP defines a message format in XML that travels over the Internet using HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). By using existing Web protocols (HTTP) and languages (XML), SOAP runs over the existing Internet infrastructure without being tied to any operating system, language, or object model.
SPML
An XML-based framework for exchanging user, resource, and service provisioning information between cooperating organizations.
SPML v2
An OASIS standard that provides a means of representing provisioning requests and responses as SPML documents.
Target
See Provisioning Service Target.
Target Schema
Defines the XML structure of the objects (PSO) that the target may contain.