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Posted to dev@directory.apache.org by Alex Karasulu <ao...@bellsouth.net> on 2006/10/10 01:06:06 UTC
Re: Can ApacheDS serve as a Virtual Directory with a RDB back-end (without
>
> From: Steven Peterson <sp...@listpilot.com>
> Date: 2006/10/09 Mon PM 02:13:13 EDT
> To: dev@directory.apache.org
> Subject: Can ApacheDS serve as a Virtual Directory with a RDB back-end (without
> customization)?
>
> Hi All,
>
> I apologize if this is not the place to ask this question, but I could
> not find an Apache DS 'users' list.
No problem at all.
> I need an LDAP interface to a relational database. I am working with a
> package that can speak to any LDAP server but not to a relational
> database. However, all the data is maintained in a relational
> database. So my thought is to find an LDAP server that I can plug into
> the database at the back-end. It can be read-only. Can I use ApacheDS
> for this?
You could write your own partition implementation for ApacheDS but a few folks have already implemented a virtual directory using ApacheDS. Penrose is a virtual directory built on top of ApacheDS. Here's a link to it:
http://penrose.apache.org
HTH,
Alex
Re: Can ApacheDS serve as a Virtual Directory with a RDB back-end (without
Posted by Jim Yang <ji...@safehaus.org>.
Steven,
The address should be http://penrose.safehaus.org
Thx,
Jim
On Oct 9, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote:
>
>>
>> From: Steven Peterson <sp...@listpilot.com>
>> Date: 2006/10/09 Mon PM 02:13:13 EDT
>> To: dev@directory.apache.org
>> Subject: Can ApacheDS serve as a Virtual Directory with a RDB back-
>> end (without
>> customization)?
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I apologize if this is not the place to ask this question, but I
>> could
>> not find an Apache DS 'users' list.
>
> No problem at all.
>
>> I need an LDAP interface to a relational database. I am working
>> with a
>> package that can speak to any LDAP server but not to a relational
>> database. However, all the data is maintained in a relational
>> database. So my thought is to find an LDAP server that I can plug
>> into
>> the database at the back-end. It can be read-only. Can I use
>> ApacheDS
>> for this?
>
> You could write your own partition implementation for ApacheDS but
> a few folks have already implemented a virtual directory using
> ApacheDS. Penrose is a virtual directory built on top of
> ApacheDS. Here's a link to it:
>
> http://penrose.apache.org
>
> HTH,
> Alex
>
>