Apache Directory Project - [OT] [Oredev] I'm back

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[OT] [Oredev] I'm back

Alex Karasulu

2006-11-19, 7:11 pm

Hi all,

I just came back from Malmo Sweden where I spoke at the Oredev
conference about ApacheDS. I had two sessions there:

Workshop: Embedding ApacheDS
Session: Merits of Directories

Both sessions went really well. I talked to many people. Several folks
were interested in using ApacheDS for various things. Many stressed the
need for the following capabilities:

(1) replication,
(2) the use of triggers and stored procedures for referential integrity,
(3) (ASL Licensed) VD capabilities,
(4) and dynamic schema updates

I also met and spoke with the Spring-LDAP folks over here:

http://www.springframework.org/ldap

These guys were cool. I think we might be seeing more of them.

Just wanted to let everyone know about these events and why I was MIA.

Cheers,
Alex

Norval Hope

2006-11-20, 1:11 am

Congrats!

On (4) "dynamic schema updates" would be grateful if you could answer
a few of my "bigger picture" questions re DIRSEVER-760. I have a
working UberJarMain server on the schema branch but need your advice
on:
1. what you think of my general implementation approach, so as not
to waste time if you see problems
2. where to store conf/*.schema files in SVN and how to copy them
to where they're needed (for all release flavours) by Maven.

On 2.: I read up on Maven a bit on the weekend and did some google
trawling, but it seems that handling of non-.jar resources is quite an
open issue (the only reference I found
(http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod...ic.gmane.org%3E)
discussed copying the files using the ANT plugin).

As Emmanuel pointed out the integration tests are broken, but I
suspect that is because of the missing .schema files (or possibly even
a missing conf/ directory in which to put them).

Thanks,
Norval