Hi,

I have just developed this Grails plugin and would like to thank all  
who have worked on ApacheDS that made it possible.

Thanks for the hard work.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Luke Daley <ld@ldaley.com>
> Date: 21 May 2009 1:15:14 PM
> To: Grails Users <user@grails.codehaus.org>
> Subject: [grails-user] New plugin: ldap-server.
> Reply-To: user@grails.codehaus.org
>
> Hi,
>
> I have just released version 0.1 of the new ldap-server plugin for  
> Grails.
>
> http://grails.org/plugin/ldap-server
>
> This plugin allows you to embed a “transient” LDAP server in your  
> Grails application for rapid development and continuous testing (not  
> unlike how Grails uses HSQLDB). The plugin uses ApacheDS 1.5.4 as  
> it's directory implementation.
>
> It currently has the following features:
>
> 	• Revertable directory state
> 	• Automatic loading of defined static data
> 	• Automatic loading of defined custom schema
> 	• Support for loading templated LDIF fixtures
> 	• Support for loading arbitrary LDIF (file, dir of .ldif files, or  
> a string of LDIF)
> 	• Dynamic reloading of directories on static data, schema or config  
> change
> 	• Servers available as beans in the application context within your  
> application (for getting at data or reverting state)
> 	• A exists(String dn) server bean method for verifying that an  
> entry exists in the directory
> 	• A getAt(String dn) server bean method for getting the entry at dn  
> as a Map
>
> This plugin combined with the existing ldap plugin (http://grails.org/plugin/ldap 
> ) provides a very productive environment for developing applications  
> that interact with LDAP directories.