Good idea Emmanuel.  Permit me to extend on this a bit ...

Perhaps instead of getting really long OIDs you can use instead compute a
hashCode from the suffix and just concat that as the
least significant OID term.  For example:

1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.0.4.X.2.org.tuscany.das.ldap.config.DASConfig.baseDN

Can be the following valid OID if the hashCode for
org.tuscany.das.ldap.config.DASConfig.baseDN is 123456:

1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.0.4.X.2.123456

WDYT?

Alex

On 4/5/07, Ole Ersoy <ole.ersoy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Emmanuel,
>
> Bottle of wine...in Amsterdam...Sooooooure :-)
>
> I think using ascii values is a great idea.
> I'll stick it in the design guide.
>
> Thanks,
> - Ole
>
>
>
> Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
> > Ole, David,
> >
> > when I woke up this morning, under my shower, I had the idea I missed
> > yesturday evening  due to the bottle of wine I drunk ... - : why don't
> > you use the ascii value of each character to code your OID, postfixing
> > your PEN ? Something like :
> > 1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.0.4.X.2.org.tuscany.das.ldap.config.DASConfig.baseDN
> > will be transformed to :
> > 1.3.6.1.4.1.18060.0.4.X.2 (the prefix, where X is a number)
> > .111.114.103.46. ... (111 = 'o', 114='r', 103='g', 46 = '.', etc)
> >
> > you will have very long OIDs, but this is not really a problem, and thy
> > will be unique worldwilde because the prefix is assigned to your
> > company, and you will have to manage the suffix (it's up to you to use
> > correct packages...)
> >
> >
> > On 4/5/07, *David Jencks* <david_jencks@yahoo.com
> > <mailto:david_jencks@yahoo.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     I would prefer to see a solution that mapped java objects to
> existing
> >     schemas, and perhaps has a way to generate schemas with oids, but it
> >     seems to me that autogeneration of something that is supposed to be
> >     worldwide unique and meaningful may cause more difficulties than it
> >     solves.
> >
> >
> > The worldwide OID will be enforced through the prefix (and management in
> > the project :)
> >
> >     For instance you'd need a way to reserve a unique PEN for each
> >     installation on which you wanted to run this stuff.
> >
> >
> > That's very true. But if you use ADS in a company,  then this company
> > should have a PEN (at least in theory: as there are only 28389
> > attributed PEN as of today ...).
> >
> >     dunno, I'm kinda a beginner.
> >
> >
> > you should be kidding ;)
> >
> >     thanks
> >     david jencks
> >
> >
> > Emmanuel
> >
> > --
> > Cordialement,
> > Emmanuel Lécharny
> > www.iktek.com <http://www.iktek.com>
>