What the Installation Must Do

Applications that extend the schema, must apply updates as described in the following procedure.

To apply updates when extending the schema

1. Add the new attributes.
2. Add the new classes.
3. Add the new attributes to classes.
4. Trigger a cache reload.

New attributes referenced in Step 3 must be referred to by its OID because the new attribute name is not present in the schema cache at this point.

Step 4 is unnecessary if the extensions will not be used immediately; the extensions will appear in the schema cache in approximately 5 minutes, depending on system load. For more information about the schema cache and how to trigger a cache reload, see Updating the Schema Cache.