Speaking of LDAP, Castor open-source project also provide 
a nice way to access such directory, by the way of DSML. 

Johann


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Emmanuil Batsis (Manos)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: sexy open source


> Argyn Kuketayev wrote:
> 
> > > From: Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > > Indeed, my little know-how says it would be stupid to use a
> > > database for
> > > information that updates rarelly, such as user authentication data.
> >
> > why? if it updates really rarely, you may cach it in your appserver or 
> > anywhere else in the memory.
> >
> > frequency of updates itself is not a reason to go into dark forests of 
> > ldap from the shiny fields of RDBMS
> >
> 
> Point taken but one can argue that somethings are easier to implement in 
> LDAP than in a database application. I agree about alternative, 
> application specific stores.
> However, there is no reason to discuss this further while being generic 
> and with no use case in mind; it may be too early to talk about such a 
> use case anyway.
> 
> Manos
> 
> 
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