Sooooo, let's do a little order.
1. you want to try Apache Syncope with LDAP - cool
2. you come to [1] and click the big green button labeled as "I want to
build my IdM with Apache Syncope"
3. you are brought to [2], where you can see that latest version is
2.1.3 Fusion and that there are many options available; also, some text
says "Don't know what to download? Click the buttons below to get more
information."
4. each buttons brings you to a different section of the Getting Started
guide [3], which explains pros and cons of the various distributions
In a nutshell:
* if you just want to look around, and like the idea of having some test
data with sample resources configured, go with Standalone Distribution
* if you are familiar with Docker, and don't need test data, just use
our images, possibly through docker-compose or Kubernetes (sample available)
* if you want to get full access to customization, stick with Maven but
please, follow the guide, e.g.
- create new project [4]
- (optionally) run it as embedded [5]
- as suggested by [6], "consider reading the Apache Syncope Reference
Guide. to understand how to configure, extend, customize and deploy your
new Apache Syncope project"
- about deployment, you will find [7], in the Reference Guide, and
understand that you need (1) to create your deployment directories and
(2) that you need to build the project in a different way than [4], in
order to deploy the three WAR files onto an external Java EE container
- you might also be interested in configuring which DBMS [8] to use
for internal storage (default is PostgreSQL)
Finally, you might find several posts about practical configurations in
my company's blog [9] - but, please, only consider the most reasonably
recent ones: did you notice that the post by Colm you started from is *6
years old*??!?
Hope this helps.
Regards.
[1] http://syncope.apache.org/
[2] http://syncope.apache.org/downloads
[3] http://syncope.apache.org/docs/getting-started.html
[4] http://syncope.apache.org/docs/getting-started.html#create-project
[5] http://syncope.apache.org/docs/getting-started.html#embedded-mode
[6] http://syncope.apache.org/docs/getting-started.html#moving-forward
[7]
http://syncope.apache.org/docs/reference-guide.html#deployment-directories
[8] http://syncope.apache.org/docs/reference-guide.html#dbms
[9] https://www.tirasa.net/en/blog
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Francesco Chicchiriccò
Tirasa - Open Source Excellence
http://www.tirasa.net/
Member at The Apache Software Foundation
Syncope, Cocoon, Olingo, CXF, OpenJPA, PonyMail
http://home.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
