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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:59:43 -0600
From: Brennan Stehling <offwhite@gmail.com>
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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/