IDM

Remote connector overview

Connectors continue to be released outside the IDM release. For the latest documentation, refer to the OpenICF documentation.

Connectors can run locally (on the same host as your application) or remotely (on a host that is remote to your application). Connectors that run remotely require a connector server, running on the same host as the connector. Applications access the connector implementation through the connector server.

The OpenICF framework can support both local and remote connector implementations simultaneously.

Connector servers also let you run connector bundles that are written in C# on a .NET platform, and to access them over the network from a Java or .NET application.

The following image shows a high-level overview of an OpenICF deployment, including a remote connector server.

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For more information about connector servers, and how to use them in your application, refer to Remote connectors.