Ludovic Poitou

(2980) OpenDS Inside : an LDAP directory embedded into your applications

Technical long talk 50 min

Wednesday, 2008-06-25, 16:30 - 17:20, Arena 8

Ludovic Poitou - Sun Microsystems Inc. (speaker)

Topics

• Middleware

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Abstract

Learn how to embed OpenDS, a Java based LDAP server, in your applications, and 
to interact with it.

OpenDS is an open source project building a complete LDAPv3 directory service 
offering. Written entirely in Java, OpenDS is designed to scale from small 
embedded directories to large scale directory service hosting hundreds of 
millions of entries. 

Many applications need to store and retrieve structured data and usually require 
an external database to do so.  By bundling an LDAP server in your application, 
you can simplify the deployment of the application and leverage the power of 
LDAP.

This session will present an overview of OpenDS, walk through the code and steps 
to embed OpenDS in a Java application. We will show how to store and retrieve 
data from OpenDS using popular APIs. We will cover advanced capabilities such as 
synchronizing OpenDS data between applications.

We will conclude with example applications that currently embed OpenDS.