At run time, OpenEdge provides identity-management access to security domains through a domain registry. OpenEdge provides:
ABL elements for creating an
ABL session domain registry to access domains to authenticate a single ABL session identity. You also have the option to use the ABL session domain registry to authenticate OpenEdge database connection identities.
The domain registry, or registries, that your application uses depend on security administrator settings for each database and whether (and how) your application creates and uses ABL session registries. In any case, a session identity is always authenticated through the current session domain registry. However, the registry configured to authenticate the identity for a given database connection is referred to as the database
trusted domain registry. For more information on using domain registries, see
Setting up and using domain registries.
