On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Lorenz Breu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Chris > > jSLP 2.0, which includes the DA, is basically finished and should be > released within the next few weeks. The current implementation can use > an embedded ADS as a backend, but currently jSLP is still a standalone > project. The out-of-the-box jSLP DA uses a simple in-memory HashMap, but > the code for the ADS (1.5) backend will also be released as a separate > package. That's great. How about contributing it to Directory? > > jSLP 2.0 was developed on top of MINA, which does not support multicast > as of yet. I did however whip up the necessary MINA code for > multicasting over APR. The code was posted to the MINA issue tracker a > while back, but no news from the MINA guys yet. I will contact some people to make sure we can add this code to MINA before 2.0. Emmanuel also may comment on this. > I don't know what we > will do there, maybe release that code on the jSLP page as well. That > multicasting code didn't work for me under windows, probably due to a > problem in tomcat native, but it worked fine under linux (32 and 64 bit). > jSLP is an extension of jSLP and a lot of changes were made. While the > DA part seems to work well, some features have still to be implemented, > such as localization support and SLP security functionality (which also > seems to be FUBAR in OpenSLP). > > I guess "reversing the roles" by using jSLP to build an ApacheDS DA > shouldn't be too hard, just a matter of retrieving a DirectoryAgent von > jSLP within ADS... > Yes this can be done. Was just hoping something can form about SLP here at Apache. Regardless the story goes on and anything is possible. Thanks, Alex
