That would be awesome and indeed very useful!
- Vincent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brennan Stehling [mailto:offwhite@gmail.com]
> Sent: January 27, 2005 10:00 AM
> To: Apache Directory Developers List
> Subject: Re: what can I do?
>
>
> I think the best way for me to get started is to put together a series
> of unit tests which I can run and experiment with different ways of
> interfacing with the Apache DS server. It will also benefit everyone
> else on the project.
>
> From there I should be able to start documentation to help others
> learn how to integrate their apps with Apache DS. And I may just do a
> couple of integrations for the most popular community projects to kick
> it off.
>
> Brennan
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:18:43 -0500, Enrique Rodriguez
> <erodriguez@apache.org> wrote:
> > Brennan Stehling wrote:
> > > I hope we can put some things together. I do not really
> do a lot of
> > > PHP development, but some PHP applications are so popular
> that it is
> > > worth the effort to unify their user management with Apache DS. I
> > > have been running POP3, Jabber, phpBB and other types of community
> > > software and each has it's own user repository.
> >
> > I agree. Easy-to-use LDAP+Kerberos should allow a broader
> community for
> > interchangeable webapps and services that can be assembled
> into virtual
> > community sites.
> >
> > > Once some issues start filling into JIRA I will do what I
> can to work on them.
> >
> > Issues that have arisen on the mailing list have so far come from
> > developers launching into using ApacheDS in existing products. The
> > protocol work I'm doing, since it uses the front- and back-ends has
> > picked out a couple bugs but most of the ones on this
> mailing list have
> > come from guys like Mark Swanson who are experimenting with this in
> > their products (http://www.scheduleworld.com/).
> >
> > Something to consider is launching into your own integration effort,
> > which may not require any coding, just configuration. For example,
> > Postfix has great LDAP support and is reasonably easy to
> configure. At
> > Apache, we've got Tomcat and James. In the broader Java world, Jive
> > Messenger (Jabber server) comes to mind. In addition to
> bug reports and
> > fixes, we could also use HOWTO's to get people started and
> expand the
> > user base.
> >
> > -enrique
> >
> >
> > > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:30:34 -0500, Enrique Rodriguez
> > > <erodriguez@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Brennan Stehling wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>I am very much interested in integrating a DS backend to
> several other
> > >>>open source projects like message board, blog, jabber and other
> > >>>community type sites which need to manage a directory of users.
> > >>
> > >>Awesome, Brennan. This is what got me involved in this
> project, the
> > >>desire to integrate community site components. I came at
> it from the
> > >>Kerberos angle only because Alex was already well along with LDAP.
> > >>
> > >>-enrique
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Brennan Stehling
> + http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/
>
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