Novell Documentation: Novell Nsure Identity Manager Driver Kit

2.5 Implementing the DriverShim Interface

The DriverShim interface consists of five methods in Java and six methods in C++:

DriverShim init—performs channel-independent initialization.
DriverShim getSubscriptionShim—returns a reference (Java) or pointer (C++) to the object implementing the SubscriptionShim interface.
Driver getPublicationShim—returns a reference (Java) or pointer (C++) to the object implementing the PublicationShim interface.
DriverShim shutdown—notifies the driver to disconnect from the application, cleanup, and otherwise shutdown.
DriverShim getSchema—called to obtain a representation of the application schema.
DriverShim destroy (C++ only)—called to free all resources used by the driver, including the driver object itself.

Each of these methods is described in detail in the following sections.