Overview of LDAPS Support
The SAE supports LDAPS connections to the directory server for its components, and can provide simultaneous LDAP and LDAPS connections for different components. You can configure the SAE to use LDAPS for some directory connections and LDAP for other directory connections. When planning whether to use an LDAP or LDAPS connection, consider that LDAPS connections have higher processing requirements, use more network bandwidth, and are slower than LDAP connections.
LDAPS connections are useful for protecting confidential data such as attributes that contain passwords and keys. For example, if you want data exchanged between a component such as User Data Manager and the directory to be more secure, you can configure the connection to use LDAPS. For public data that does not require the security of SSL (such as a directory connection that transmits only service information), you can configure LDAP rather than LDAPS.
Most directories, including Oracle Internet Directory, Sun ONE Directory Server, and DirX support LDAP connections through SSL.