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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>