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 <document>
   <properties>
     <author email="akarasulu@apache.org">Alex Karasulu</author>
     <title>Apache Directory Project: Contributors</title>
   </properties>
   <body>

     <section name="Alex Karasulu">
       <p>(akarasulu at apache dot org)</p>

       <p>
         Alex wrote the LDAPd pure Java LDAP server and founded the LDAPd Group.
         He eventually disolved the LDAPd Group and proposed and founded the
         Directory Project at Apache which absorbed the code base to the LDAPd
         Directory Server.
       </p>

       <subsection name="Some Background">
         <p>
           As a want-to-be enterprise architect and developer Alex had searched for a way
           to consolidate common data within an infrastructure into one single
           location to centralize it's management and allow for shared access.
           Such a centralized database would make enterprise integration of
           several applications and processes depending on this common
           information that much easier without duplication and consistancy
           issues.
         </p>

         <p>
           Alex first experimented with a centralized database to initially store
           user accounts, passwords and authorization profiles for various
           applications and resources within an enterprise.   Unfortunatly the
           use of an RDBMS was inhibiting.  It was a single point of failure
           which wound up becoming a bottle neck.  Furthermore the RDBMS was
           not very conducive toward managing heirarchical data and delegating
           control over it.  A new storage and access paradigm was required and
           that's when Alex encountered the directory.
         </p>

         <p>
           After studying up on X.500 and LDAP Alex decided to design corporate
           directories to facilitate in enterprise application integration and
           the realization of workflows across these systems.  His experience
           lead to encounters with various directory servers which disappointed
           him.  The directory servers encountered were a decade away from being
           as robust as the RDBMS is for application developement.  Some of the
           rich features in the RDBMS have yet to be introduced into the world
           of the directory server or require a massive workaround to implement.
           Things like stored procedures and triggers were most high on that
           list.
         </p>

         <p>
           Finally on October 16th 2002 Alex decided to write his own LDAP server
           which had support for triggers and stored procedures.  On this day he
           registered a Sourceforge project called LDAPd and began building an
           LDAP server.  He also founded the LDAPd Group which worked on the
           LDAPd server.  Eventually Jeff Machols, Robb Penoyer, Wes McKean and
           others joined the project.  Before a year the server had 3 releases at
           sourceforge and an invitation was made by Apache to have the
           LDAPd project move there.   A proposal was written and submitted
           for the Apache Directory Project on September 3rd 2003.  The proposal
           was accepted by the ASF into the Apache incubator on October 30th
           2003.
         </p>

         <p>
           The dream of a robust pure Java LDAP server will be realized before
           exiting the incubator.  Most importantly the server will be free and
           supported by a healthy community of developers here at the ASF.
         </p>
       </subsection>

       <subsection name="Alex's Stuff">
         <table>
           <tr><td>Stuff</td><td>Description</td></tr>

           <tr>
             <td>
               <a href="http://sf.net/projects/ldapd">LDAPd</a>
             </td>
             <td>
               This is the old LDAPd Sourceforge project started before the
               Directory Project existed at the ASF.
             </td>
           </tr>

           <tr>
             <td>
               <a href="../../project-proposal.html">Proposal</a>
             </td>
             <td>
               This is the proposal submitted to the ASF to start the
               Directory Project as an incubator project.
             </td>
           </tr>

           <tr>
             <td>
               <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/akarasulu">Blog</a>
             </td>
             <td>
               Weblog containing random events, ideas and discussions.
             </td>
           </tr>

           <tr>
             <td>
               <a href="http://www.apache.org/~akarasulu">Homepage</a>
             </td>
             <td>
               Homepage where you can find resources on directory
               technologies and other peices of information.
             </td>
           </tr>

         </table>
       </subsection>

     </section>
   </body>
 </document>
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<document>
	<properties>
	<author email="akarasulu@apache.org">Alex Karasulu</author>
	<title>Apache Directory Project: Contributors</title>
	</properties>
	<body>

	<section name="Alex Karasulu">
	<p>(akarasulu at apache dot org)</p>

	<p>
	Alex wrote the LDAPd pure Java LDAP server and founded the LDAPd Group.
	He eventually disolved the LDAPd Group and proposed and founded the
	Directory Project at Apache which absorbed the code base to the LDAPd
	Directory Server.
	</p>

	<subsection name="Some Background">
	<p>
	As a want-to-be enterprise architect and developer Alex had searched for a way
	to consolidate common data within an infrastructure into one single
	location to centralize it's management and allow for shared access.
	Such a centralized database would make enterprise integration of
	several applications and processes depending on this common
	information that much easier without duplication and consistancy
	issues.
	</p>

	<p>
	Alex first experimented with a centralized database to initially store
	user accounts, passwords and authorization profiles for various
	applications and resources within an enterprise. Unfortunatly the
	use of an RDBMS was inhibiting. It was a single point of failure
	which wound up becoming a bottle neck. Furthermore the RDBMS was
	not very conducive toward managing heirarchical data and delegating
	control over it. A new storage and access paradigm was required and
	that's when Alex encountered the directory.
	</p>

	<p>
	After studying up on X.500 and LDAP Alex decided to design corporate
	directories to facilitate in enterprise application integration and
	the realization of workflows across these systems. His experience
	lead to encounters with various directory servers which disappointed
	him. The directory servers encountered were a decade away from being
	as robust as the RDBMS is for application developement. Some of the
	rich features in the RDBMS have yet to be introduced into the world
	of the directory server or require a massive workaround to implement.
	Things like stored procedures and triggers were most high on that
	list.
	</p>

	<p>
	Finally on October 16th 2002 Alex decided to write his own LDAP server
	which had support for triggers and stored procedures. On this day he
	registered a Sourceforge project called LDAPd and began building an
	LDAP server. He also founded the LDAPd Group which worked on the
	LDAPd server. Eventually Jeff Machols, Robb Penoyer, Wes McKean and
	others joined the project. Before a year the server had 3 releases at
	sourceforge and an invitation was made by Apache to have the
	LDAPd project move there. A proposal was written and submitted
	for the Apache Directory Project on September 3rd 2003. The proposal
	was accepted by the ASF into the Apache incubator on October 30th
	2003.
	</p>

	<p>
	The dream of a robust pure Java LDAP server will be realized before
	exiting the incubator. Most importantly the server will be free and
	supported by a healthy community of developers here at the ASF.
	</p>
	</subsection>

	<subsection name="Alex's Stuff">
	<table>
	<tr><td>Stuff</td><td>Description</td></tr>

	<tr>
	<td>
	<a href="http://sf.net/projects/ldapd">LDAPd</a>
	</td>
	<td>
	This is the old LDAPd Sourceforge project started before the
	Directory Project existed at the ASF.
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>
	<a href="../../project-proposal.html">Proposal</a>
	</td>
	<td>
	This is the proposal submitted to the ASF to start the
	Directory Project as an incubator project.
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>
	<a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/akarasulu">Blog</a>
	</td>
	<td>
	Weblog containing random events, ideas and discussions.
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td>
	<a href="http://www.apache.org/~akarasulu">Homepage</a>
	</td>
	<td>
	Homepage where you can find resources on directory
	technologies and other peices of information.
	</td>
	</tr>

	</table>
	</subsection>

	</section>
	</body>
	</document>