Le 02/07/16 à 00:50, Zheng, Kai a écrit :
> Hi Lucas,
>
> I understand what you meant and totally agree. That’s why in the past years I
> would spend lots of spare time working on a pure Java Kerberos binding,
> Apache Kerby. However, for the backend part, as it regards to users’ data, it
> must be strong so better to delegate to 3rd party offerings. You could think
> about this, developing another backend like Mavibot, would be how hard as it
> is being, while working on our core specific things such as LDAP and
> Kerberos, even given enough resources, right. It’s good to have the current
> Java offering, and we can leverage it to do the unit testing, and fallback to
> some platforms, but basing on the fact that we have/support a strong backend
> for the most typical platform.
>
> Yes, the backend support should be pluggable and configurable so potentially
> the server can support whatever backend if the user would. Currently Apache
> Kerby goes that way.
So does ApacheDS. In order to switch from JDBM to Mavibot, you just have
a configuration to change. It can be improved, though, because we don't
have a Index factory.
