Part of the OpenDS development team will be in San Francisco next week for the CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences.

At CommunityOne, we have a one hour session to present the OpenDS project and how easy it is to install it, extend it.

At JavaOne, you will be able to find us in the Pavilion, on the POD190 for a demonstration of an OpenSSO identity Provider for Microsoft Cardspace, and demonstration of OpenDS (standalone and inside OpenSSO).

Come to see us !

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On Monday May 5, at CommunityOne in San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., I will be presenting with Jim Yang from Identyx how to get started with OpenDS, a pure Java LDAPv3 server, and how to make use of the numerous interfaces to extend the server for specific application needs.

You can find the details of the session and the complete abstract from CommunityOne content catalog.

What: S297199 Getting Started with OpenDS

Who: Ludovic Poitou, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Jim Yang, Identyx

When: Monday May 05 11:00 – 11:55

Where: Moscone North – Hall E 133

I hope to see you there.

And remember, registration to CommunityOne is free. So if you haven’t done it yet, register now !

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On Monday May 5, at CommunityOne in San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., I will be presenting with Jim Yang from Identyx how to get started with OpenDS, a pure Java LDAPv3 server, and how to make use of the numerous interfaces to extend the server for specific application needs.

You can find the details of the session and the complete abstract from CommunityOne content catalog.

What: S297199 Getting Started with OpenDS

Who: Ludovic Poitou, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Jim Yang, Identyx

When: Monday May 05 11:00 – 11:55

Where: Moscone North – Hall E 133

I hope to see you there.

And remember, registration to CommunityOne is free. So if you haven’t done it yet, register now !

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Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 is the latest release of the Directory Server product line and brings several improvements over previous releases:

• Improved performances for some specific deployments. For example, deletion of sub organizations is now faster.
• Optimized disk space utilization by removing useless replication meta-data during an import with the new dsadm purge-csn option.
• Better interoperability through Directory Proxy Server with improved support of LDAP controls and extended operations.
• Improved support for distributed entry creation or modification with Directory Proxy Server Virtual capabilities and RDBMS.
• Better support for multi-hosted machines with Directory Service Control Center.
• Ability to deploy the Zip install on Windows as any user.
• Support for SuSE Linux 10 (x86 architecture).
• Support for HP-UX 11.23 (PA-RISC).

The full download are available immediately from the Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition Downloads

The patches are available immediately from SunSolve.

• #125276-07: Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 : SunOS 5.9/5.10 Sparc Native Patch
• #125277-07: Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 : SunOS 5.9_x86 Native Patch
• #125278-07: Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 : SunOS 5.10_x86, x64 Native Patch
• #125309-07: Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 : Linux RHEL3 RHEL4 Native Patch
• #126748-04: Sun Java(TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 : SunOS 5.9/5.10 Sparc patchzip
• #126749-04: Sun Java(TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 : SunOS 5.9_x86 patchzip
• #126750-04: Sun Java(TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 : SunOS 5.10_x86, x64 patchzip
• #126751-04: Sun Java(TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3: Linux RHEL3 RHEL4 patchzip
• #126752-04: Sun Java(TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3: HP-UX 11i PA Risc patchzip
• #126753-04: Sun Java(TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3: Windows 2000/2003 Server patchzip

Localization patches will be available shortly.

The documentation for this release has been published on docs.sun.com : http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1224.4

For more information, check the DSEE Blog.

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The Directory Masters event organized at the Grenoble Engineering Center took place on April 3 and 4, 2008.

For 2 days, over 60 Sun employees and partners came together to share information and knowledge about Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition. Over half of the attendees were pre-sales, professional services delivery architects and engineers coming from 12 different countries, from Americas, Europe and Asia. The other part was from the Directory Services engineering team mostly located in Grenoble, France.

All areas of the Sun Directory services product were covered : new features, roadmap, performances, proxy server, virtual directory capabilities, Solaris naming services… Overall a rather packed agenda, many passionate discussions and a successful event.

Thanks to all of the participants. I hope to see you again next year.

Those who wished they could have participated, there is a US based event organized on May 12 – 13, 2008 in Somerset, NJ… As far as I know, there are still seats available.

Below are some pictures from the event, the gallery is here.

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We have just uploaded OpenDS 1.0.0-build014, built from revision 4094 of our source tree, to our promoted builds folder. The direct link to download the core server is https://opends.dev.java.net/files/documents/4926/92415/OpenDS-1.0.0-build014.zip.

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is https://opends.dev.java.net/files/documents/4926/92416/OpenDS-1.0.0-build014-DSML.war.

We have also updated the archive that may be used to install OpenDS via Java Web Start. You may launch that using the URL http://www.opends.org/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more information.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.0.0-build014

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 1.0.0-build013 include

• Revision 3939 — Provide complete support for OpenDS as a NetBeans project. With this change, you can open the Opends NetBeans project by loading the project.xml NetBeans file.
• Revision 3945 (Issue #3006) — Fix an issue that caused a modify operation on the userPassword attribute not to be replicated.
• Revision 3950 (Issue #3049) — Correct the exit status when the uninstall command does not complete correctly.
• Revision 3951 (Issue #1873) — Ensure that the ServerState is updated after a server crash.
• Revision 3954 (Issue #3048) — Add a summary of the parameters provided by the user at the end of the interactive command-line setup.
• Revision 3958 (Issue #2991) — Ensure that all returned search entries do not bypass the workflow and workflow elements.
• Revision 3962 — Ensure that the timestamp of Change Numbers grows consistently growing across a replicated topology and not only inside each individual server.
• Revision 3964 (Issue #3052) — Fix an IllegalMonitorStateException that sometimes occurred with replication.
• Revision 3977 (Issue #3073) — Enable the debug logger by default for all tools and for the server on startup.
• Revision 3983 (Issue #3076) — Fix the -V and –version options for the base64 command.
• Revision 3984 — Various improvements in performance and memory utilisation.
• Revision 3985 — Various fixes to the entry cache preload backend implementation.
• Revision 3992 (Issue #2858) — Various improvements to the plug-in functionality.
• Revision 4000 (Issue #3078) — Provide an interactive mode for dsreplication that is similar to the dsconfig interactive mode.
• Revision 4002 (Issue #2197) — Provide a way for dsconfig interactive mode to display the effective non-interactive dsconfig command.
• Revision 4003 (Issue #3073) — Fix an issue that caused messages to be printed twice when running certain tools (such as import-ldif and verify-index).
• Revision 4004 (Issue #3053) — Fix an issue that caused changes to be lost after the dsreplication initialize command was run.
• Revision 4005 (Issue #2911) — Fix an issue in which dsreplication pre/post-external initialisation failed to clear all the change logs.
• Revision 4010 (Issue #3079) — Rename the BackgroundTaskThread file to match the name of the class defined inside it.
• Revision 4024 (Issue #2333) — Fix an issue that caused setting the import thread count to a high number to throw exceptions.
• Revision 4028 (Issue #3085) — Fix a problem in which the Length Based Password Validator returned the minimum length if the maximum length was violated.
• Revision 4030 (Issue #3084) — Fix an issue that blocks searches on replicationChanges after purgedelay change.
• Revision 4033 (Issue #218) — OpenDS now supports monitoring through SNMP and is compliant with MIB-rfc2605.
• Revision 4035 (Issue #3064) — Check that the Java version used by the setup command is at least version 1.5.0_08 when the vendor is Sun Microsystems.
• Revision 4037 (Issues #3086 and #3087) — Consider an uninstall cancelled if the user does not provide valid confirmation or menu data.
• Revision 4082 (Issue 3075) — Fixed a default cipher algorithm provided in the Crytomanager configuration. Applies to non-Sun JVMs (e.g., 1.5 IBM JVM) that do not include the same ciphers.

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