The OpenDJ development team has its own blog now. You will find news, tips and other information about the Open source ldapv3 Directory services in Java.
On the same topic, there is now an aggregator of news feeds related to ForgeRock that has been set and you can read all the news from a single place : http://blogs.forgerock.org/aggregator/
ForgeRock is exactly ONE year old today. As we’re a distributed and quite global company, we’re not going to blow the candle on the cake today. But I’m sure next time we meet, we’ll have one as nice as the one we had during our last company meeting in Faro, Portugal.
Also today is the first day at ForgeRock of Matthew Swift, as Architect for the OpenDJ project, growing the forces at the ForgeRock Grenoble Engineering Center. Matthew comes from Sun (Oracle) where he was leading the development of the core of OpenDS, as well as the LDAP Client API. He has been doing interesting work with regards to performances with the OpenDS server (he’s the one who provided me with nice numbers to present), and its reliability. Matthew has several years of experience building LDAP and Directory related products as well as Java development, for Sun, Bloomberg and Isode. He’s bringing his talent and energy back to the open source project and will help make OpenDJ an even stronger and better product.
I’m really delighted to work with Matthew again.
And what a great day today !
My ex-colleague Eduardo Pelegri has been collecting and posting interesting data about the ex-Sun people and the Sun initiated open source projects, a year after the Sun-set. I find interesting to see how the Sun heritage is disseminating and creating a larger ecosystem of new companies.
Here we are, already in 2011 ! I can’t believe how fast time has flown since mid September. The last 3 months have been extremely busy, with the release of OpenDJ 2.4.0, the customers already working with our products and the setup of ForgeRock France SAS.
Things are in place and we’re ready to grow the team, in the ForgeRock Grenoble engineering center. I’ll talk more about that when it happens.
Meanwhile, on behalf of ForgeRock France and overall, let me wish you a very Happy New Year. May all your projects be successful, especially the open source ones 🙂
I know this is a temporary office, but this is one of the many reasons for ForgeRock France to be located near Grenoble.
In my last post I said that I was moving to other ventures. My future has a name and the people who are following me on LinkedIn or Twitter have seen it already. I’ve been invited to join ForgeRock and drive the directory services products, complementing the I3 Open Platform.
So on October 1st, we have publicly announced the latest addition to ForgeRock portfolio : OpenDJ, the Open source Directory services in Java. OpenDJ is based on OpenDS, an open source project initiated by Sun Microsystems on which I’ve worked for 4 years.
You can download OpenDJ 2.4 beta 1 from the download repository, or install it directly using Java Web Start.
The source code is available on our SVN repository and you can browse through it with FishEye.
Please report any issue or request for new features in our issue tracking tool (Jira)
And if you want to join the project and participate, you’re more than welcome.
I will remain in the Grenoble area, France where we will soon be opening an engineering center.
After 15 years at Sun, I’ve decided to leave the company and pursue other ventures. My last day will be September 15th, 2010.
Sun had offered me the opportunity to do what I really like: build great products for and with customers, in a truly diverse and international environment. I’ve been lucky to work with highly talented people, from all over the world. I’ve enjoyed (almost) every minute of it and I’m really thankful for that.
A huge “Thank you” to the many readers of this blog, for your comments and encouragements. I do intend to continue writing (more than the last few months), and for that I have relocated the content at https://ludopoitou.wordpress.com
You can also find me on LinkedIn or Twitter.
Thanks again and talk to you soon.
I’m taking some time off the network with my family. I expect to be back online end by August 24.
Enjoy the silence…
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Today is my 14th anniversary at Sun. This is way more than I had anticipated but I can’t say that I’ve been really counting the days or years. I’ve been very fortunate to meet and work with very bright people, to participate in the birth and development of a very successful product line. I’ve done and I’m still doing things that get me excited, passionate, with a really good balance of the technical and the business aspects. Looking back from where we’ve started with Sun Directory Services, I’m amazed and I’m proud by the amount of business we’ve driven for Sun. And still our customers are pushing us to innovate and we’re taking LDAP directory server to levels that a few years ago we would not even consider as possible. So there is still some interesting work ahead and that keeps me going to the office every day with motivation and a steaming brain.
However, I know there will not be a 15th anniversary at Sun, just simply because Sun will no longer be Sun very soon. The page is turning… Let see what the next chapter will be about !
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I’ve just received a “certificate of attendance as a Speaker” from the FISL organizers. This is a very nice gesture and adds to the amazing experience that is FISL. Big thanks to the organizers and more specifically Fernanda Weiden who had to cope with the egos of over 320 speakers.
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I’ve just spent a wonderful week in Porto Alegre, Brazil where I’ve landed to talk about OpenDS at the FISL 10 conference.
This is my first visit in Brazil and I must say that I didn’t get any good impression of the country in the first two days. As a matter of fact, I didn’t get any impression at all. I arrived on Monday evening around 9pm, it was all dark. After more than 16 hours of traveling, I just wanted to hit a bed.
On the Tuesday morning, thanks to the jet lag, I got up quite early, checked email and went for breakfast by 7am, noticing a rainy day and still pretty dark. I was just done with the breakfast when Bruno Souza arrived and took me to the location of the Javali meeting, an ancillary event of FISL, sponsored by Sun and organized by SOU Java and RS JUG.
We spent the whole day in the conference room, watching from time to time through the windows the heavy rain and wind. The Javali talks ended with pizzas and guarana and by then the night was already dark.
While I didn’t get to see how Porto Alegre looks like in the first days of my visit, I did enjoyed the friendliness of Brazilians. At Javali, trying to follow the presentations in Portuguese was though but I think I got probably 50% of the technical parts thanks to the mix of english words and to my understanding of Spanish. And when it was necessary, Bruno or Mauricio Leal would do some translation for us.
I didn’t get to talk at Javali, the agenda was pretty full and I hadn’t told Bruno I would be coming as I wasn’t sure I could make it. But Pat Patterson presented Securing RESTful Web Services with OpenSSO (and OAuth) and mentioned a few times OpenDS.
Wednesday was the first day of FISL and all the Sun participants went quite early to help setting up the booth in the Exhibition Hall. Sun’s booth was very well located and its main attraction was the thousands of small soccer balls that were given to attendees that registered to the OSUM program. I think that throughout the whole event, the Sun’s booth was the most vibrant and busy one, with Roger Brinkley making demos with his toys, Angel Camacho, Brian Leonard, Kirthankar Das and others helping with installs of OpenSolaris on attendees’ laptops.
Arun Gupta fired the event on Wednesday morning with his presentation demonstrating the combined power of GlassFish, MySQL and NetBeans to build web applications.
Friday was the busiest day for me as I was scheduled for 2 presentations. But before that, I was invited to participate in Simon Phipps talk show, describing in 5 minutes, what was OpenDS, what were the benefits for the Brazilian open source users and developers.
Immediately after, and in the same room, I did my presentation for OpenDS with the theme of "Scaling the Identity Store with OpenDS". The sessions talked about the 3 models we have in OpenDS for deployment :
While FISL is mostly attended by students, my session had a majority of System Administrators, interested by simplifying and reducing the cost of their data-centers.
Later in the afternoon, I was presenting again, repeating JavaOne’s presentation from Tony Printezis and Charlie Hunt GC Tuning In the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine. Charlie was meant to attend the event, but the week before found out he could not make it. As they recalled I was in the room at JavaOne and I’m quite familiar with the subject as we’re spending a lot of time trying the different options to tune the JVM to get the best performances out of OpenDS, they asked me to cover the talk. I think I’ve done a reasonable job, despite the density of information in the slides, and the simultaneous translation in Portuguese for the largest part of the crowd not so familiar with English.
Still on Friday, part of the exhibition floor was closed to the public as the Brazilian President, Lula Da Silva, was schedule to visit the event. Sun booth was very well positioned, on the border on the closed area and the crowd started to gather by the booth as President Lula arrived. The excitement was amazing. When the President reached by the OpenSolaris Brazil user group, he received an OpenSolaris cap and T-shirt from Vitorio Sassi, Sun employee and one of the leaders of the Brazilian OpenSolaris community.
Photo taken by Ludovic Poitou, June 26 2009.
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On Saturday and last day of the FISL conference, I got to share a little bit more of the stage by answering a performance related question from the attendance on Bruno Souza’s session about the future of Java,with the exceptional presence of Javali, the mascote for the Javali user group.
Overall FISL has been an amazing experience. It is definitely the biggest open source I’ve participated to. Over 8200 registered visitors, from 27 different countries, more than 320 speakers for 354 presentations and a presidential visit. More than that, Brazilians are extremely nice, generous and happy to live. They made our stay in Porto Alegre something that I’ll remember for a long time. A special thanks to the main organizers: Bruno Souza and Eduardo Lima (here below with Simon Phipps)
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I’ll definitely participate to the Call For Presentation next year, if evangelism of the OpenDS project is still one of my tasks for next year.
You can find all photos for the event in the FISL 10 picasa album.
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Many of you have requested the slides.
Here they are :
Thanks for your presence…
A more detailed article is in the works.
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Well, I’ll be leaving home tomorrow morning, but early enough that people in California will still be up on the Friday night.
I’ll be arriving in San Francisco on Saturday mid-day, getting prepared for a long and intense week.
On Sunday, from 1pm to 7pm, we have our OpenSSO / OpenDS community day at the Moscone.
And for the rest of the week, we’ll be at CommunityOne West and JavaOne, mostly working on the Identity booth in the Pavilion.
See you there !
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Some time ago, I enabled the ClustrMaps on my blog to get some idea of who was reading this space and where from.
And I must say I’m completely amazed by the global reach out of what I post here.
Below is a picture indicating the location of the readers from March 19 to May 20, 2009.
While I’m not surprise that most readers are from US and Europe, I find it interesting that the blog has been read from 94 different countries, some of which I cannot even place on the map.
The power of the Internet keeps amazing me everyday. Now it would be really cool if you, reader from one of those little isolated red dot, could leave a comment and tell me what you’re interested in, and how you use OpenDS if you do.
Note that I do understand French, English and Spanish, so this leaves you some choice for leaving your comment. So don’t be shy !
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