Not sure I have an answer for that :) My guess would be because of the first letter in the acronynm: Lightweight. Otherwise, your question seems reasonable to me.
-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Fri, July 15, 2005 6:41 am, Adam Hardy said: > Frank W. Zammetti on 14/07/05 17:39, wrote: > We have completely externalized security from all our applications and >> have built a fairly robust Security Framework, on top of J2EE security >> and >> LDAP. Further, we are now taking customization and adding it in. >> >> Currently, once a user is authenticated and authorized, it is only THEN >> that the application code begins. The application can make simple >> queries >> to get basic user info (name, group, whatever attributes are stored in >> LDAP), but things like "what can this particular user do within this >> particular app" is still within each app. This is what we are >> generalizing and moving out to the framework now. We have some good >> ideas >> about doing this, and keeping it generic enough to work >> across-the-board, >> but I suppose we'll know if we succeeded in a few months. > > > Going slightly OT but the thread's OT anyway, why does LDAP exist or why > does it get used so much? What advantages does it have over a database, > which all applications have anyway? Why add another technology to the mix? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
