Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.1 main feature is the ability to deploy the Console GUI from a War file in your favorite Application Server (within a choice of Sun App Server or Tomcat 5.5).

In a previous post, I demonstrated how to do this with a Zip installation of DSEE. Here I am explaining how to obtain and install DSCC war file for a Java Enterprise System installation (also known as the Native package installation, depending on the OS either SVR4 packages, RPMs, Depot or MSI).

Because packages are providing a greater integration with Solaris system features, most of the commands must be run as "root" (or "Administrator" for Windows).

Once you have installed Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.1 or 6.2, the console is probably already registered in Sun Web Console. You can leave it as is, or you can un-configure it using dsccsetup:

# pwd

/opt/SUNWdsee/dscc6/bin

# dsccsetup console-unreg

Unregistering DSCC Application from Sun Java(TM) Web Console…

This operation is going to stop Sun Java(TM) Web Console.

Do you want to continue ? [y,n] y

Stopping Sun Java(TM) Web Console…

Unregistration is on-going. Please wait…

/var/opt/SUNWdsee/dscc6/dcc has not been removed

DSCC Application has been unregistered from Sun Java(TM) Web Console

Restarting Sun Java(TM) Web Console

Please wait : this may take several seconds…

Sun Java(TM) Web Console restarted successfully

Now you can check the status and it should like this.

# dsccsetup status

***

DSCC Application is not registered in Sun Java (TM) Web Console

***

DSCC Agent is registered in Cacao

***

DSCC Registry has been created

Path of DSCC registry is /var/opt/SUNWdsee/dscc6/dcc/ads

Port of DSCC registry is 3998

***

To generate the DSCC war file, use the following command (note that this command is undocumented and unsupported for the time being. Still it works and produces the ).

# dsccsetup war-file-create /tmp/dscc.war

# ls -la /tmp/dscc.war

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 7303074 Jul 9 14:33 /tmp/dscc.war

You can now deploy the WAR file in your favorite Application Server, and follow the instructions for the zip deployment. There is one pitfall though. Because, DSEE and DSCC are installed as root, and so is the DSCC Registry, the WAR file should be deployed in an Application Server which as the ability to run commands with the root privileges. Otherwise, DSCC will not be able to access its registry and thus will not start properly.

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I’ve uploaded the presentation [PDF] I gave at the 1st International LDAP Conference on OpenDS wiki.

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The 1st International LDAP Conference ended on Friday afternoon. I had to leave a little early to catch my plane, and didn’t have the time to post the latest update. So here it is.

During the afternoon, Abdi Mohamadi (Sun) presented design and deployment considerations for scaling directories, Kostas Kalevras explained how Greek School Network centralized all LDAP data creation and modifications through Web services, and Felix Gaehtgens from Symlabs exposed in a fast and lively presentation some best practices when building LDAP based applications.

Overall it was a great conference, with interesting presentations and numerous long passionate bar discussions.

Above members of 3 open-source Directory Server projects (OpenDS, OpenLDAP, Apache DS) raise their glasses in a toast to the LDAP community.

More photos…

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Ersin Er from the Apache Software Foundation exposed his experimentations with Stored Procedures in LDAP and how they are used with Triggers.

Stored Procedures are code (java bytecode) stored in LDAP objects executed by a generic LDAP Extended request to pass parameters and get returned result and values.

Triggers are specifying an event, action,time and a scope in a single attribute definition, and leverage stored procedures for actions. Events are predefined, and triggers are run within an Administration domain (Subtree Specification). Pretty neat ! I think this is not a new idea, but it looks like a simplification in the use of the plugins and tasks that exist in Sun Directory Server and OpenDS. There might be value in a common representation of such LDAP directory server extensions, but I’m afraid this will not lead to better interoperability as Stored Procedures will be very specific to each implementation.

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I’ve noticed that Jan-Piet Mens is also blogging live from LDAPCon. And yet we had a good evening with lively and hilarious discussions between the OpenLDAP, OpenDS, Isode, ApacheDS developers.

Steven Legg (eB2Bcom.com) exposed his work on XML enabled Directories also known as XLDAP. Most of the protocol and data model has been conducted through IETF. So far Steven has been the only one to produce an implementation. It’s not really surprising: one need to be both an expert in LDAP and XML processing to get an idea of what XLDAP is. But I recently got a question indirectly from a customer about XLDAP and whether we had any plan to implemented. Could it be that XLDAP is starting to raise interest ?

Andre Posner from Sun showed the use cases and added value of Sun Directory Proxy Server 6.x for security, availability, integration of different Directory Servers, migration of services.

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DSEE 6.2 is out.

It has been released as part of Java Enterprise System 5 Update 1.

The patches are in the process of being made available through SunSolve.

Here’s a quick overview of the patch numbers

126748-02 Solaris9-sparc, Solaris10-sparc

126749-02 Solaris9-x86

126750-02 Solaris10-x86, Solaris10-AMD64

126751-02 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 UP4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 UP2, SuSE 9UP3

126753-02 Windows 2000 AS SP4, Windows 2003 EE/SE SP2 (32&64-bits), Windows XP

The full download will soon be available from the DSEE Download page.

As Deepak already mentioned, the Documentation has been published

.

DSEE 6.2 is mostly a bug fix release, aligns with the other Java ES products and components, but does also contain one specific performance improvement.

Enjoy !

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I’m now in Cologne Germany participating in the 1st International LDAP Conference.

This morning, Kurt Zeilenga (Isode) started the conference with a Directory Standards Report, presenting the history of Directory Standards, LDAPv3 status and the current on-going effort.

I then presented the OpenDS project, the rational behind the project and its goals (I’ll make the preso available later).

After lunch, Howard Chu (Symas, Chief Architect for OpenLDAP) introduced his talk with his traditional fiddle play and then presented the OpenLDAP 2.4 server. I must say that I’ve been impressed by the list of enhancements introduced such as N-way MultiMaster Replication.

Alex Karasulu (Apache Directory Project) presented his view of the LDAP community and his vision for the Apache Directory Server: a playground for experimentation and bridging LDAP and RDBMs.

More after the break.

Update on Sep. 10 2007.

Kurt’s presentation was posted on Isode blog.

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Happy birthday to the OpenDS project.

A year ago, July 28th was the exact day we turned the switch on to the OpenDS.dev.java.net project.

We had a dinner at my house with most of the marketing, management team here at Sun, and Etienne and Steve had brought a cake for the occasion.

It has been a fascinating and passionate year. We’ve went from releasing rough (but working) code to the first weekly build of what will be the OpenDS 1.0 release, from a couple of developers to 25 committers, working on the code, the tests, the documentation…

Like for a child, OpenDS first year has been the year where we learnt our environment, developed our abilities, and mostly focused on our needs. The second year will see us opening to the external world, starting to talk and interact better with other communities, give more of ourselves to the world and continue to grow. And we will try not to throw any tantrums 🙂

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Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 delivered a Sun Cluster HA agent for Directory Server that was qualified with Sun Cluster 3.1 (which is the version in Java Enterprise System 5).

We’ve done a quick round of sanity tests of Sun Java System Directory Server 6.1 with Sun Cluster 3.2, and we can now claim the combination officially supported.

There is still a defect with Directory Server 6.1 that prevents the server from starting when SC 3.2 has been installed on a machine ( defect #6563445: Directory Server fails to start if rlimit is set to infinity). This defect has been fixed in the coming 6.2 version. Meanwhile Sun support organization will be happy to deliver a hot-fix for this on demand.

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