Hello folks, I have a comment about out-of-box software ldap-enabled. It is very good to have a ldap implementation distributed alongside with our software, but will the clients want it? I believe most enterprises have already an authentication server, and they won't feel right to have another server to configure and maintain, just because our software needs it.
To solve this, one solution could be to distribute our software with easy LDAP configuration GUIs, that would connect our software with the client's enterprise Active Directory/LDAP server. Another solution would be to ship with our software an ldap cached proxy. The configuration GUI would still be needed but the good thing is that our software wouldn't slow down because of the remote ldap server and that same remote ldap server wouldn't slow down because of our software. Anyway, the first solution means that we don't need to distribute any ldap server implementation! ;) Best regards, Miguel Figueiredo -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: terça-feira, 18 de Janeiro de 2005 16:53 To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: Re: ldap securitystore / problem configuring simple example JAASAuthentication Hi Jason, First of all, I want to thank you for your prompt and clear answers! Thanks! > LDAP is a good candidate for this. It is a standard and fairly well > supported, so integrating third-party applications should be easier than > with a custom solution. I taught about it as well, but our application is completely self-contained and written in native Java. So if we choose LDAP as user base, we have to provide a (fully configured) LDAP server as well, because we can't make knowledge about LDAP a requirement for our product. It should work out-of-the-box. Our product is available for lots of platforms, so we have to find LDAP servers on all the platforms, or a fully implemented LDAP server in Java. As far as I know there aren't any java open source LDAP servers, except the JavaLDAP project of Clayton Donley (not finished) and the commercialization of it. > If you can store your user and role information in a location Slide > understands, that will make your life easier. Which locations does Slide understand? - LDAP (via JNDIPrincipalStore) - ... Thanks! David. -------------------------------------------------- Inventive Designers' Email Disclaimer: http://www.inventivedesigners.com/email-disclaimer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
