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June 05, 2004
Learning JNDI
The JNDI tutorial covers almost too much for the LDAP developer alone. Like a good ski resort has everything from flat green slopes to bumpy, steep black ones.
I've run through most of the first 5 trails, though my understanding of security mechanism leaves something to be desired. The title of the last trail, Building a Service Provider, makes me wonder. How hard would it be to write a directory service provider abstracted away from the specific backend? If you then can use redundant, failover-ready, in-memory databases as the backend, can you eliminate the problems you'd have had using disks during LDAP operations? (Perhaps we're already virtualizing away from the actual disk anyway.)
Posted by Mark at June 5, 2004 11:01 AM