Hi Trustin!
Trustin Lee wrote:
Hi all.
I'm adding LDAPS support in apacheds-server. It is implemented in
ServerContextFactory.startLDAPS(...). I used MINA SSLFilter and
javax.net.ssl package for it. This means Java 5 is mandatory to start
up ApacheDS LDAPS. I'm not sure ApacheDS will run in JDK 1.4, but I
guess we need to load the classes dynamically to make it run in JDK 1.4.
Do we need SSL in JDK 1.4? ...
For a user who runs ApacheDS standalone as an LDAP server it is somewhat
easy to select the underlying JRE. Java 5 would be no problem from my
point of view. Almost all OS already have an appropriate JRE available
(not sure about OS/2, z/OS and other even more exotic stuff).
But because people like to embed ApacheDS in applications (like Geronimo
or Jetspeed-2 do), and as long as these application should run with
older Java versions as well, I think it is quite important to support at
least base functionality with JDK 1.4. Does ldaps/SSL belong to this
base? I am not sure, but I believe it does not.
Greetings from snow covered Germany, Stefan
