Thank you Emmanuel. Rather, we have been using the JRE JNDI provider for a long time. Simply put, it's limited. I was wondering as a long shot, if I could transparently switch to using Apache Directory client and immediately gain some transparent benefits.
But alas! Thanks for your help :) - Ray On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 3:46 PM Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 17/08/2020 18:33, Raymond Auge wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Is it possible to use the Apache Directory client as the provider as per > > "LDAP Service Providers [1]" (as in transparently without code changes?) > > That would require quite some work. Also we started working on the LDAP > API circa 2010 as a replacement of JNDI, because JNDI was dead in the > water. We tried to include Sun in this work, but that ended nowhere for > many (political) reasons. > > > In any case, there is absolutely no reason to use JNDI today, unless you > have some legacy code you want to use as is. In this case, I would > strongly suggest to keep your code as is - if it's not broken, don't fix > it... -. > > My 2 cts. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- *Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile> (@rotty3000) Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com> (@Liferay)
