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| # 1.1 - Architecture Overview |
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| The Apache Directory Server (aka *ApacheDS*) architecture has many different layers. The following schema expose the most important ones : |
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| As we can see, we distinguish four different layers : |
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| * the network |
| * the Session |
| * the PartitionNexus |
| * the Backends |
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| We will describe in detail those layers in the following chapters. |
