On 3/30/19 9:34 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: > Hi all ! > > releases of the LDAP API and ApacheDS are slowly getting ready. We have > had to deal with various challenges ! > > - First, the LDAP API has been heavily refactored, for better > performance. The API itself will not change, this is the internal that > are changing. > > - We have had to wait for a MINA 2.1 release, which took quite some > time, and I'd like to go with a MINA 2.1.1 that is going to be released > somewhere next week: it simplifies greatly the way we deal with sent > messages, and we also have some SSL improvements in this coming reelease. > > - Once the LDAP API is released, we can move with a ApacheDS realase. > This time, it will contain some changes in the way we handle keystores, > support for transactions, and many other smaller improvements.
One blocking issue is ehcache 3 which is not working with OSGi and Java 11. I started to check if replacement with Caffeine would work. > - In the same spirit, Fortress will benefit from the LDAP API and > ApacheDS release. It's a bit of work (not too much), but that would lead > to faster tests: the idea is to use transactions to improve the initial > data injections, which is quite costly. > > - Then will come Studio. I think Stefan has worked on migrating it to > the latest Eclipse version, which is becoming quite challenging, due to > the newest release strategy (a new version every 3 months). We also have > some fixes in the UI (connection testing, for instance) > > > That is going to be a pretty intense spring ! > > > More to come soon. >