Via the Four Kitchens‘ blog, David Timothy Strauss sees some similarities between Drupal Nodes and the Directory Information Tree of an LDAP server such as OpenDS, making a parallel between the Decorator Pattern used when developing Node types and the possibility to decorate directory entries with Auxiliary object classes.

He also realizes the benefits of storing the nodes in a directory server that supports multi-master replication, providing high availability and scalability for Drupal servers.

I hope we will hear soon from David’s experiments with using OpenDS as a Node storage engine.

PS: David, you’re welcome to share your experience and comments on the OpenDS Users mailing list.

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Java evangelist John Yeary just posted a detailed, well illustrated tutorial for setting up LDAP based authentication and authorization with GlassFish and OpenDS. The tutorial is similar to the one published on OpenDS Wiki a while ago, but adds the required steps to enable SSL and completely secure the authentication phase.

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Java evangelist John Yeary just posted a detailed, well illustrated tutorial for setting up LDAP based authentication and authorization with GlassFish and OpenDS. The tutorial is similar to the one published on OpenDS Wiki a while ago, but adds the required steps to enable SSL and completely secure the authentication phase.

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We have just uploaded OpenDS 1.1.0-build001, built from revision 4507 of our source tree, to our promoted builds folder.

The direct link to download the core server is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.1.0-build001/OpenDS-1.1.0-build001.zip

The direct link to download the DSML gateway is: http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.1.0-build001/OpenDS-1.1.0-build001-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/promoted-builds/1.1.0-build001/install/QuickSetup.jnlp, or visit https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OverviewOfTheQuickSetupTool for more i

nformation.

Detailed information about this build is available at http://www.opends.org/promoted-builds/1.1.0-build001.

Major changes incorporated since OpenDS 1.0.0 include:

#8226 Revision 4342 (Issue #3330) – The LDIF connection handler is now disabled by default.

#8226 Revision 4344 (Issue #3338) – Fix an error that was causing the upgrade mechanism to remove the any Java arguments that had been set for the server.

#8226 Revision 4349 (Issue #3328) – Correct the Java options used when the server is started through the status panel.

#8226 Revision 4350 (Issue #3310) – Fix an issue that was causing the restart of a master server to take several minutes.

#8226 Revision 4387 (Issue #3418) – Ensure that the status and status-panel commands display the Java version rather than the JVM version.

#8226 Revision 4394 (Issue #3438) – Ensure that the start-ds command uses the configured jvm arguments when running as a windows service.

#8226 Revision 4406 (Issue #3429) – Fix an issue that was causing online parallel replication initialization to fail.

#8226 Revision 4412 (Issue #3443) – When a new replication domain is configured, the server now prevents sub-suffix replication only if the sub-suffixes are identical.

#8226 Revision 4416 (Issue #1805) – Add options to the ldifdiff command to allow specific attributes or entries to be ignored when comparing LDIF files.

#8226 Revision 4423 (Issue #3461) – Fix an issue that was causing the winlauncher to inherit handlers from its parent process.

#8226 Revision 4441 (Issue #3468) – Allow the password modify extended operation to accept a DN for the userIdentity.

#8226 Revision 4446 – Fix the residentialPerson object class definition bug introduced in RFC2256 and carried over to RFC4519 where the l attribute declared both MUST and MAY. The new definition reflects the X.521 origin of residentialPerson.

#8226 Revision 4464 – Fix an issue that resulted in an entry not being removed from the DN entry cache index.

#8226 Revision 4473 (Issue #3475) – Fix the Java Web Start setup on Mac OS.

#8226 Revision 4476 (Issue #3474) – authzid is no longer ignored when checking groupdn membership.

#8226 Revision 4485 (Issue #3484) – Fix a problem that resulted in a very low purge delay being set when the replication purge delay was changed.

#8226 Revision 4488 (Issue #3477) – Fix a problem that caused the replication server cache to become too large and the JVM to run out of memory.

#8226 Revisions 4489 and 4490 – Separate the server delivery into an “Install Layout” (the binaries) and an “Instance Layout” (the user data).

#8226 Revision 4496 – Adapt the make-ldif command for the split between instance and install.

#8226 Revision 4500 – (Issue #3492) – Fix an issue in which the get effective rights control returned incorrect rights for the isMemberOf attribute.

#8226 Revision 4503 (Issue #3488) – Fix a problem that caused replication initialization from quicksetup to fail occasionally.

#8226 Revision 4504 (Issue #3490) – Fix an issue that caused the uninstall process to produces numerous spurious warnings.

#8226 Revision 4506 (Issue #3496) – Fix a problem causing SASL/GSSAPI authentication to fail over startTLS.

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Srikanth has written a long and detailed post on his blog where he compares the LDAP Simple Paged Result control and the Scrolling View Browsing of Search Result control (aka VLV).

Using OpenDS 1.0, an open source LDAP directory server written in Java, Srikanth describes the server settings and the use of these extensions with the ldapsearch tool. He is also providing a sample Java based application that lists all entries from a directory server, using the VLV control.

Nice work Srikanth ! Quite a nice proof of the benefits of the VLV control over Simple Paged Results.

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