1) What are you using ADS for? We are planning a production release in May with ADS included. We have created our own partition class using JDBC to connect to our existing database of users and H.350 device data. We need to add proxying of Active Directory user data (translated to "REAL" LDAP) that will be pulled in and mated to our H.350 device data and pushed back to the client as one cohesive unit. From today's mail stream, we may look into PENROSE to accomplish this.
2. What are the Pros and Cons you clearly see ? Pro: It is in Java, OpenSource, we can embed it in JBOSS, it was pretty easily extensible to add the JDBC partitions we needed. Cons: Configuration, moving from 1.0 to 1.5 during development was difficult, even going from 1.5 to 1.5.1 was a large hoop to jump thru. We have had a learning ramp with Maven since our stuff is all done with Ant. I am afraid to move to 2.0, but soon I will grab the trunk or the big bang (still gotta figure that one out) and start builds and tests. 3) What would be the major features or improvement you are expecting to see in the near future ? I am counting on StartTLS and Distributed authentication. We also need NTLM SSO abilities, but I don't see that in the roadmap for ADS. I just found out today about the Kerberos server built in to ADS, so I need to check that one out too. 4) Are you a commercial entity, an non-for profit organization, an Apache project, a student or an individual just interested in the techno ? (no name needed) We are a company. 5) Any other opinion or feedback you would like to share with us ? AD Studio has been invaluable for getting as far as we have, since I knew nothing about LDAP a year ago. -----Original Message----- From: Emmanuel Lecharny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 9:00 AM To: Apache Directory Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Feedback needed] ADS pros and cons ? Hi ! This is the very beginning of 2008, and we are all working hard to get a 2.0 out in the next few months. At this point, we think it's a good timing to get some feedback from you, users and developpers ! Here is a short list of question you may answer, but this is very up to you. We don't need names ( "I'm working for company XYZ" ), this is just informational. *Keep in mind that those informations will appear on the Apache ML and many other, so if you think that any confidential piece of it should not be disclose, then don't answer !* 1) What are you using ADS for ? Is it in production, used to do some tests during developpement, or simply as a toy ? 2) What are the Pros and Cons you clearly see ? 3) What would be the major features or improvement you are expecting to see in the near future ? 4) Are you a commercial entity, an non-for profit organization, an Apache project, a student or an individual just interested in the techno ? (no name needed) 5) Any other opinion or feedback you would like to share with us ? Thank you all for helping us being more aware ! -- -- cordialement, regards, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com directory.apache.org
