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