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| <author email="akarasulu@apache.org">Alex Karasulu</author> |
| <title>Welcome !</title> |
| <description>The Apache Directory Project aims to produce a high performance and production quality LDAP server written in Java.</description> |
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| <body> |
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| <section name="News"> |
| <ul> |
| <li><b><a href="http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3527.htm">ApacheDS 1.0 has been certified by the Open Group as an LDAPv3 compatible server!</a></b></li> |
| <li><b><a href="subprojects/apacheds/releases.html">ApacheDS 1.0 is out!</a></b></li> |
| </ul> |
| </section> |
| <section name="What is it?"> |
| <p> |
| Before going into all the details here's what the Apache Directory |
| Server looks like from an architectural perspective. |
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| </section> |
| <section name="Our Vision"> |
| <p> |
| Our primary vision (others also outlined below) is to build an |
| enterprise directory server platform (and its components) where |
| other Internet services snap in to store their data within the |
| directory so they may be managed using LDAP. From the image |
| above you'll see the architecture is designed so services besides |
| LDAP like DNS, DHCP, SLP and Kerberos will snap in. Other services |
| like UDDI can also be implemented and snapped in. These services |
| will use a common networking layer and each can be toggled on and |
| off according to the needs of the environment. apseda, mina, or |
| sedang are various frameworks used for the common network layer. |
| These services share the common network layer and back their data |
| within the Apache Directory Server's backing stores without any |
| network latency or going through the LDAP line protocol. NTP btw |
| is the only exception and it's there to remedy the need for time |
| sync for replication and other time sensitive protocols like kerberos. |
| Its implementation here is intended to prevent any dependency on |
| external infrastructure. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p> |
| Other aspects to our vision include becoming the JNDI goto project and |
| also becoming the one stop shop for all directory and naming concerns |
| here at the ASF. These concerns may be outside of the scope of JNDI |
| or may not even fall under Java. |
| </p> |
| </section> |
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