Sun Tech Days are coming to Paris on March 19th, 20th and 21st. As part of this event, there will be a GlassFish Community User Group where we will be presenting OpenDS. Alexis has posted the complete agenda of the meeting as well as other ancillary events.

The same day, still in Paris but at the Sun Customer Briefing Center (Av de Iéna), there is an Identity Management User Group. It seems that pre-registration is very successful, but if you’re a Sun customer and are interested in participating, it is still time.

 See you in Paris in about 2 weeks.

As Mark pointed out yesterday, the Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 documentation set went live at http://docs.sun.com/coll/1224.1.

The product should be available for download very soon.

I am sure that for my 3 daughters I am THE super-hero. But I don’t know if they would reach the same conclusion as this quiz:

You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 75% Robin 65% The Flash 60% Supergirl 55% Superman 55% Iron Man 45% Hulk 40% Green Lantern 35% Wonder Woman 20% Catwoman 20% Batman 20%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

It’s time to take a well deserved break with my wife and daughters, visit the family and relatives.

I’ll be back early January…

Meanwhile, I wish you all a Merry Christmas (or in French: Joyeux Noël).

 

No, OpenDS is not moving to Central Europe (where the Elbe is a major waterway).

Matthew, developer on OpenDS and located in an office near mine, showed me how ELBE, an Eclipse plugin for Browsing and Editing LDAP directories, could be with OpenDS and more specifically the instance running on his laptop :

 

 

ELBE is really a cool and well designed tool… I personally just wished it runs in my preferred IDE: NetBeans.

 

Another great Sun customer story has just been published on http://www.sun.com.

This time it’s about Sina, one of the largest Web portals and a leading online media and value-added information service provider in China, who redeployed its Sun Java System Directory Server on 12 Sun Fire T1000 servers, powered by coolthreads.

But with over 230 million users in Sun Java System Directory Server, I believe that this is the largest Directory Server in production.

I’m amazed with what our customers are doing with our product, and I’m sure that this "record" (if it is one) will not stand long with Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 coming soon, enabling new kinds of highly scalable and manageable directory services.

Addendum on Dec 20, 2006:

It seems that the current number of entries in the Directory is more around 120 than 230 as the article suggested. But according to one of the engineers involved in the project, the plan is to move to 600 millions soon. I’m still waiting for the deployment details: size of data, partitioning and performance numbers. May be early next year 😉

Following the instructions for Roller on Rich Burridge’s Blog, I’ve added the “Like this post ?” links to my blog…
Thanks Rich for the trick and hosting the images 🙂

Update (28 Aug 2006).
With Roller 3.0, there are new macros for these social bookmarking sites and links. I’ve updated the template to use these new macros.

As it’s already been pointed out by Neil, we have quietly introduced the OpenDS Directory Service to the world.
Capitalizing on a decade of experience and leadership in the directory market, we’ve started to prepare our future. So OpenDS is the foundation for our next generation of Directory Service, and we’re doing it in Java, as an Open Source project, open and publicly.
The code is accessible, a build is available for you to download and take a look. Right now, it’s mostly an LDAPv3 server with basic operations. And we’ve also published a lot of documentation about the architecture, how to install and configure, and how to contribute.
We know this will raise a large number of questions, so we’ve tried to address some of them in the FAQ.
So come and give us a visit… https://opends.dev.java.net or http://opends.org
And join the community !

Tags: LDAP, Directory Server, OpenDS

Today marks the 11 year anniversary for me at Sun. On this special occasion, I decided it was time for me to relaunch this blog.

11 years is a lot, and I’ve been mostly working in the same area: LDAP
and Directory Services. But I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished so
far, and really excited about where we’re heading. Directory services
and LDAP are not dead despite the raise of user centric identity. And
I’m sure that our coming releases will strengthen our market leadership.

It’s been nearly a year since I last posted something, and like last
post, I’m just back from vacation (2 weeks spent in Greece for one of
my cousin’s wedding). As part of the relaunch, I’ve changed the
template to the common Sun look and feel. And I’ll try to be more
regular in my posts.

Today marks the 11 year anniversary for me at Sun. On this special occasion, I decided it was time for me to relaunch this blog.

11 years is a lot, and I’ve been mostly working in the same area: LDAP
and Directory Services. But I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished so
far, and really excited about where we’re heading. Directory services
and LDAP are not dead despite the raise of user centric identity. And
I’m sure that our coming releases will strengthen our market leadership.

It’s been nearly a year since I last posted something, and like last
post, I’m just back from vacation (2 weeks spent in Greece for one of
my cousin’s wedding). As part of the relaunch, I’ve changed the
template to the common Sun look and feel. And I’ll try to be more
regular in my posts.

I’m back from vacation, relaxed and tanned. This year, my wife and I
have dedicated our time to our family and parents. And I’ve had my
yearly overdose of novels and books (from Harry Potter 6 to Confusius).

Coming back to work is always a mix of pleasure and pain. On one side,
it’s good to reactivate the neurones, and on the other one, the first
task is to clean up the huge amount of emails that have kept on
stacking in the mailbox. This done, I’m back full speed on the
Directory Server and the Identity business.

I’ve just noticed today that my friend and fellow Michael Haines has started a blog.
Michael’s title is certainly not “Mister Solaris LDAP” but he is the author of two best sellers of the Sun BluePrints series:

• LDAP in the Solaris Operating Environment: Deploying Secure Directory Services
• Solaris and LDAP Naming Services: Deploying LDAP in the Enterprise (Sun Blueprints S.)

(both books that I had participated in) and he has a huge experience in deploying LDAP (and Sun Java
System Directory Server) as a naming service in the enterprises.
Welcome Michael.

My summer vacations are starting now and I’ll be avoiding keyboards and screen for a while…
Expect this place to be silent until the end of the month.

This week-end my dad lent me his Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D Macro to try it with my Nikon D70.
Since I’ve bougth the D70, I’ve been looking for a mid-range lens to
complement my 18-70mm and 70-200mm zooms. I need a lens with pretty
wide aperture, sharp. So I spent the whole week-end shooting
everything, from flowers to insects, to my kids… And I’m really happy
with the results. The lens is really sharp (may be a little bit to much
for portraits), reasonably fast and very clear. It ranks number 1 on my
favorite list of buys. Here’s a small (reduced) sample of the results.

Tags: Photo Nikon

 

Today’s stage of the Tour de France was starting from Grenoble and passing very close to Sun’s facilities of Montbonnot
(one of the few facilities dedicated to software research and
development outside the US). Matt and I took our bikes, and for the
lunch break we went to see the professional racers on their way to the
Alps. In less than 2 minutes, they were all gone, and we are now
following the full stage on TV. In about 1/2 hour they will be passing
by my wife’s parents’ house in Aime before heading to Courchevel.

Tags: Cycling Tour De France