Rui José, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo, Vasco Freitas
Universidade do Minho
Departamento de Informática
4700-320 Braga, Portugal
Abstract
Providing such specific view might be done for instance by restricting
the default DUA display to a subset of object classes or attribute types
meaningful to a particular application.
The work described in this paper is not about interface styles or user
friendliness, it is about defining mechanisms that allow for users to
easily setup several configurations based on the information they intend
to access.
They should be adaptable to a variety of interfaces and, to demonstrate
that, as well as raising some practical implementation issues, two interfaces
based on these concepts are presented: A windows LDAP DUA and a WWW to X.500
gateway.
Directory interfaces adopting this model are expected to help users make
more advanced uses of the Directory and at the same time not need such a
good knowledge of X.500 and its operations.