A few tabs and URLs related to OpenDS that I need to share:

• Dominic Cleal from CDO2, a company based in UK, tried to raise a bit of attention on the OpenDS project. We noticed it, and the dicussion with Dominic turned into the first Adoption story for OpenDS published on the Stories blog.
• Do-under, a Geek Diva, is getting Ruby to talk LDAP and for that recommends ruby-net-ldap and OpenDS.
• Open ESB project provides an updated Binding Component for LDAP, which has been primarily developed and tested against OpenDS.
• Via Twitter, Pamela Dingle shared her first experience with OpenDS.

Last but not the least, if you haven’t checked the OpenDS new Control Panel GUI yet, grab a recent daily build and play with it… And tell us what you think about it.

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The Update Center 2 project has just released a new version of the IPS packaging toolkit.

One of the nice new feature of the toolkit is the Custom Ant tasks for pkg(5) providing a easy way to produce IPS packages, package repositories and installation image for Ant based build environment.

Christopher Kampmaier has updated the example use of the pkg(5) toolkit for OpenDS, demonstrating the power of these Ant tasks.

No doubt that we will be integrating the IPS factory in the OpenDS Project in the near future.

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Bill Hathaway, long time user of Sun Directory Server product, was recently playing with OpenDS, the open source LDAP directory server written in Java. After installing and populating the server with a million user entries, he started a "modrate" job and forgot about it… Approximately 327 millions changes later, and after 13 hours, the server was still running fine at an average of 7000 modifications per seconds !

Read the details on Bill’s blog.

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I’ve just found this morning this article about OpenDS and IBM WebSphere Process Server (WPS), posted on BigAdmin By Sachin Krishna Telang. It covers step by step the procedures for installing and configuring OpenDS 1.0 as the User registry for WPS 6.0.2.0.

I’ve also added a reference to this article to the OpenDS Wiki page describing how to Use OpenDS With Specific Directory Enabled Applications, where we already have detailed procedures for GlassFish, Apache Web Server, Tomcat…

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Nick Wooler recently moved from OpenSSO over to Directory Services team as the Product Line Manager. OpenDS and its commercial companion Sun OpenDS Standard Edition are now part of his daily matters. Not only he immediately tried the new toys, but he has scored a home run and produced this high quality screencast.

Watch how to install OpenDS, configure it and load 2000 sample entries, in less time than it takes to boil an egg !

Update on Sept. 2010

Oops, the movie is no longer available. Here’s another one done by @AlexisMP.

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