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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:37:05 +0100
From: Emmanuel Lecharny <elecharny@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Brief Enquiry: Transactions Support and Standalone Studio for
 Apache DS
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Daniel Ofori-Dankwa wrote:
> Greetings Directory Team,
>   

Hi Daniel,
> Will be brief.
>
> 1. Does Apache DS support transactions (like in other dbms)?
>   
Short answer : no. But Ldap transaction is totally a different thing 
than RDBMS transactions. There is currently nothing really specified 
regarding LDAP transaction, if you except this draft :
https://opends.dev.java.net/public/standards/draft-zeilenga-ldap-txn.txt

(which has been issued 4 months ago !)

However, we have implemented recently a rollback facility which could be 
used to implement a transactionnal subsystem, assuming we add some 
locking mechanism.
> 2. Any existing standalone studio or directory editor for Apache DS (without
> use of eclipse tool)?
>   
Apache Directory Studio is a standalone editor. It's based on Eclipse 
RCP, which does not mean you _have_ to launch eclipse to run the tool. 
It comes in two forms :
- a standalone application
- a set of Eclipse plugins.

It's up to you to use one or the other.

Here is the download page :
http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html
> Thank You.
>
> Daniel, Ghana.
>
>   
Hope it helps.


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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel L�charny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org