Hi Tino you have information about building the server here :
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxSRVx11/ApacheDS+v1.5+Developer%27s+Guide and http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxSRVx11/Building+trunks This is for version 1.5 For version 1.0, here you are : http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxSRVx10/Building Hope it helps... Emmanuel On 12/21/06, Tino Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Alex, On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:25:52PM -0500, Alex Karasulu wrote: > > I've got a pretty interesting project here: We would like to equip our > > open-EIS knowledge management software with an embedded LDAP server. > > I was pretty glad to find the Apache DS since everything seems to be in > > place. My first goal is to allow user authentication against an existing > > open-EIS user base which is stored in a DB. > > > > Looking at the architecture I found that the best way would be to > > implemnt a new backend and provide a DN<->category mapping (open-EIS > > content is organized in categories) as well as a OID<->SQL mapping. > > > > Do you have any hints or advice for me? Is this the right place to > > start? > > Sounds like a nice project to work on. Yeah writing a custom partition > would give you a lot of power. It is the right place to start. > > First thing just take a look at the Partition interface in the partition > package. You'll have to implement this for your EIS application. > > Best thing to do might be to first stub out all the methods and set > things up so you can just read a simple entry after installing the > partition into the server. Then you can move on to start building up > your solution. That's good news. :-) I'll let you know how I progress... BTW: I had some difficulties with building Apache DS... what's the easiest way to get a dev environment set up with Eclipse? I had to add a lot of libs by hand... And there's a JBOSS depency in the sar-plugin which made me struggle. Bye, Tino. -- www.quantenfeuerwerk.de www.spiritualdesign-chemnitz.de www.lebensraum11.de
-- Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
