Hi Stefan
this is an interesting piece of work.
I think it deserves to be put on the 'interoperability' page on our site
(http://cwiki.apache.org/DIRxINTEROP/), which need a *big* improvement btw !
Many tahnks for the good work !
Stefan Zoerner wrote:
Hi all,
I have "wrapped" ApacheDS 1.5.5 as an Apache Tomcat Realm.
Source code (a Maven2 project) is in my sandbox:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/sandbox/szoerner/apacheds-tomcatrealm
What is it?
Within Apache Tomcat, a realm is (cite from Website) a "database" of
user names and passwords that identify valid users of a web
application (or set of web applications), plus an enumeration of the
list of roles associated with each valid user.
In order to use Apache Directory Server (ApacheDS) as a realm, the
straight forward approach is to use the JNDIRealm shipped with Tomcat.
It can handle arbitrary LDAP servers, among them ApacheDS.
Because ApacheDS is 100% pure Java and embeddable, there is another
option: Implement the Realm interface from Apache Tomcat and run
within Tomcat. There are (at least) two interesting things about this
approach:
1. Tomcat can use ApacheDS without the wire protocol, because the
realm has a handle to the "in process" API of ApacheDS
2. ApacheDS runs within Tomcat and starts and stops automatically
along with the web application server
While the first point promises some performance advantages, which are
irrelevant in most situations (because LDAP servers like ApacheDS are
optimized for read operations anyway), the second reason makes this
approach a good option for development environments.
Learn more about it (I have started a minimal documentation) here
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxSBOX/ApacheDS+as+a+Tomcat+Realm
I hope, some people think it is useful. If so, we can perhaps create
an official artifact out of it, later on.
Any feedback is highly appreciated.
Greetings from Hamburg,
Stefan
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org
