Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache LDAP API 1.0.0-M3 has been released !

[Les Hazlewood <le...@katasoft.com>]

This is fantastic news Emmanuel.  Thanks so much to the dev team for the
work put in on this - I'd love to see this displace JNDI as the primary Java
LDAP API!!!

Best,

-- 
Les Hazlewood
CTO, Katasoft, Inc.
http://www.katasoft.com

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>wrote:

> The Apache Directory team is proud to announce the availability of the
> 1.0.0-M3 version of the Apache Directory LDAP API.
>
> The Apache LDAP client API is an ongoingeffort to provide an enhanced LDAP
> API, as a replacement for JNDI and the existing LDAP API (jLdap and Mozilla
> LDAP API).
>
> This is a schema aware API, with some convenient ways to access a LDAP
> server. This API is not only targetting the Apache Directory Server, but
> should work pristine with any LDAP server.
>
> It's also an extensible API : new Controls, schema elements and network
> layer could be added or used in the near future. *It includes an OSGi based
> plugin framework for extending the API.*
>
> This is the first official milestone (two others have already been released
> but not announced), we will release few more milestone versions before a
> release candidate,  but the current version has already been validated in
> Directory Studio and in the Apache Directory Server. Its documentation is
> currently under construction.
>
> Feel free to experiment, we highly appreciate your feedback !
>
> Web site : http://directory.apache.org/api/
> Download : http://directory.apache.org/api/downloads.html
> User Guide : http://directory.apache.org/api/user-guide.html
>
> --
> Regards,
> Cordialement,
> Emmanuel Lécharny
> www.iktek.com
>