The identity applications rely on a number of components acting together:
User Interfaces
Directory Abstraction Layer
Workflow Engine
SOAP Endpoints
Application Server (J2EE-Compliant)
Database
User Application Driver
Role and Resource Service Driver
Designer for Identity Manager
iManager
Identity Manager Engine
Identity Vault
Authentication Service for Single Sign-on Access
The following figure shows how these components fit into the overall architecture of the identity applications.