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cvs commit: incubator-directory/www/community/who akarasulu.html jmachols.html nbergman.html rpenoyer.html wesmckean.html
akarasulu 2004/02/01 13:08:16
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<p>
- Talk about Alex here.
+ 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>
+ <div class="h4">
+
+
+ <h4>
+ <a name="Some Background">Some Background</a>
+ </h4>
+
+
+ <p>
+
+ As an 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. Unfortuneatly 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 towards 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 others joined the project like,
+ Jeff Machols, Robb Penoyer, Wes McKean and others. Before a year the
+ server had 3 releases at sourceforge and an invitation was made by
+ the Avalon team to have the LDAPd project move to Apache. 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>
+
+ Alex hopes to make the dream of a robust pure Java LDAP server a
+ reality before exiting the incubator. Most importantly the server
+ will be free and supported by a healthy community of developers here
+ at the ASF.
+
+ </p>
+
+ </div>
+
+ <div class="h4">
+
+
+ <h4>
+ <a name="Alex's Stuff">Alex's Stuff</a>
+ </h4>
+
+
+
+ <table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="3">
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ <tr class="a">
+ <td>
+ Stuff
+ </td>
+
+ <td>
+ Description
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ <tr class="b">
+ <td>
+
+
+ <a href="http://sf.net/projects/ldapd">LDAPd</a>
+
+
+ </td>
+
+ <td>
+
+ This is the old LDAPd Sourceforge project that Alex started before
+ the Directory Project existed at the ASF.
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ <tr class="a">
+ <td>
+
+
+ <a href="../../project-proposal.html">Proposal</a>
+
+
+ </td>
+
+ <td>
+
+ This is the proposal Alex submitted to the ASF to start the
+ Directory Project as an incubator project.
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ <tr class="b">
+ <td>
+
+
+ <a href="http://www.apache.org/~akarasulu">Homepage</a>
+
+
+ </td>
+
+ <td>
+
+ This is Alex's homepage where you can find resources on directory
+ technologies and other peices of information.
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ </table>
+
+ </div>
+
</div>
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<h3>
- <a name="Alex Karasulu">Alex Karasulu</a>
+ <a name="Jeff Machols">Jeff Machols</a>
</h3>
<p>
- (akarasulu at apache dot org)
+ (jmachols at apache dot org)
</p>
<p>
- Talk about Alex here.
+ Talk about Jeff here.
</p>
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<h3>
- <a name="Alex Karasulu">Alex Karasulu</a>
+ <a name="Noel Bergman">Noel Bergman</a>
</h3>
<p>
- (akarasulu at apache dot org)
+ (nbergman at apache dot org)
</p>
<p>
- Talk about Alex here.
+ Talk about Noel here.
</p>
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<h3>
- <a name="Alex Karasulu">Alex Karasulu</a>
+ <a name="Robb Penoyer">Robb Penoyer</a>
</h3>
<p>
- (akarasulu at apache dot org)
+ (rpenoyer at apache dot org)
</p>
<p>
- Talk about Alex here.
+ Talk about Robb here.
</p>
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<h3>
- <a name="Alex Karasulu">Alex Karasulu</a>
+ <a name="Wes McKean">Wes McKean</a>
</h3>
<p>
- (akarasulu at apache dot org)
+ (wesmckean at apache dot org)
</p>
<p>
- Talk about Alex here.
+ Talk about Wes here.
</p>