I think the question should have been, can LDAP be updated the same way my
RDBMS is. The answer is no. No concurrency locking, which is step one before
any transactions can be performed.
If you are working with LDAP and RDBMS today, and you understand the
limitations of LDAP, I still think some BMP solution could make sense. It
will not make your LDAP any better than it is today, just unify the way you
talk to LDAP and RDBMS.
arkin
>Sorry people,
>
> next time I'll use the tags
><rhetorical
>/rhetorical>
>before sending comments like this again.
>
>As LDAP is not transactional, it didn't appear to be an appropriate
>technology for the originators problem.
>
>Kirk
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rickard �berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Friday, December 10, 1999 5:02 PM
>Subject: Re: BMP with LDAP
>
>
>Hi!
>
>Kirk Pepperdine wrote:
>> >Confirmed. You can get an LDAP JNDI SPI from either JavaSoft (look in
>> >the JNDI page) or Netscape (the Mozilla Directory SDK).
>> >
>> >That still does not make LDAP transactional, but I don't see why you
>> >couldn't use LDAP for persistance. After all if you are updating LDAP,
>> >whether through the LDAP API, JNDI or BMP you get the same
>> >non-transactional persistance.
>>
>> [Kirk] What happens when the LDAP is involved in a distributed
transaction
>> that gets rolled back?
>
>Nothing, since the LDAP server isn't transactional..
>
>It would be possible to build a JNDI provider on top of EJB for example,
>which would make it transactional. Anyone who have tried? Would be very
>useful to have.
>
>/Rickard
>
>--
>Rickard �berg
>
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