Apparatus and method for optimizing schema definitions for an LDAP directory

摘要

An apparatus and method for optimizing the schema definitions of an LDAP directory. With the apparatus and method, a required object class file is generated that sets forth the object classes required by a client device's applications. This file is then compared against the schema definitions in an LDAP directory server. Those schema definitions that reference the object classes in the required object class file are logged along with any superior classes of these object classes. Similarly, the attributes of these schema definitions and their superior attributes are also logged. The logged schema definitions and attributes are then stored as a reduced set of schema definitions in associated with a client device identifier. Thereafter, when the client device requests an LDAP directory operation, the reduced set of schema definitions is loaded and used rather than the entire set of LDAP directory schema definitions.