[syncope] usage of LDAP in syncope

[Kiran Ayyagari <ka...@apache.org>]

Hi dev,

    Based on the design documentation(haven't looked deep inside the
code yet) syncope seems to be completely driven by RDBMS
    does it support an LDAP server as a/the data store?

    P.S:- btw, I work on Apache Directory server

-- 
Kiran Ayyagari

Re: [syncope] usage of LDAP in syncope

[Francesco Chicchiriccò <il...@apache.org>]

On 10/07/2012 21:23, Kiran Ayyagari wrote:
> Hi dev,
>
>      Based on the design documentation(haven't looked deep inside the
> code yet) syncope seems to be completely driven by RDBMS
>      does it support an LDAP server as a/the data store?

Hi Kiran,
as you might see on [1], Syncope relies upon JPA 2.0 for its internal 
storage, hence it's RDBMS only: we currently support H2, MySQL, 
PostreSQL, Oracle and MS SQL Server.

As Identity Manager, LDAP servers are crucial in integration scenarios: 
here's why, through Connectors, Syncope is able to provision to (and in 
some cases pull data from) LDAP servers.

A list of all available connectors (provided by the ConnId project) is 
available at [2]; some detailed information about LDAP connector is 
found at [3].

>      P.S:- btw, I work on Apache Directory server

We are using ApacheDS 1.5.7 for Syncope integration tests, to check the 
LDAP provisioning.

[1] http://incubator.apache.org/syncope/architecture.html
[2] http://code.google.com/p/connid/wiki/AvailableConnectorBundles
[3] http://code.google.com/p/connid/wiki/LDAP

-- 
Francesco Chicchiriccò

ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member
http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/