Hi Marc and David,
JNDI has worked for me so far. I like it because it's out of the box,
so to speak, in the jdk. :)
There's also the JNDI booster pack - http://java.sun.com/jndi - which
contains a few more LDAP goodies.
Cheers,
Nick
On 03/08/2005, at 4:13 AM, Marc Boorshtein wrote:
> Couldn't have put it better myself :-)
>
> Marc
>
>
> On 8/2/05, David Boreham <david@bozemanpass.com> wrote:
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>>
>>
>>> Either way, I'm not a particuler fan of JNDI :-).
>>>
>>>
>> Agreed. JNDI is evil IMHO. Well, fine for its intended purpose
>> which was to abstract multiple directory services underneath
>> a single interface. Problem is that for the most part there is only
>> one directory service these days (LDAP) and now the quest
>> for abstraction leads to loss of fidelity in the interface.
>>
>>
>>> The JLDAP code has
>>> support for DSMLv2 and SPML (in CVS) so it's a bit more flexible. I
>>> also think that there have been some performance imporvements (I
>>> think
>>> the "synchronouse" search in JLDAP is actually "asynchronouse"
>>> now, as
>>> I haven't seen any performance difference between the two). In
>>> addition, JDBC-LDAP is based on JLDAP so that gives you an SQL
>>> interface. I'm not with Novell so I don't know a lot of the back
>>> story.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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