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March 03, 2006
Open Source Tools: Fedora Directory Server
This week's tool is the Fedora Directory Server, which just released version 1.0.2 yesterday. This is an open-source LDAP server that is remarkably similar to the Sun Java Enterprise Directory Server (or JES DS) that we use here at Case. This is due to the fact that both products have a shared history that you can read about here.
There are a few differences due to the shared code base drifting apart for the last four and a half years, as JES DS can now run as 64-bit and allows having over 4GB of cache, which doesn't work terribly well on 32-bit platforms. Fedora DS has converted their Administration Server from running on the iPlanet web server to Apache.
While we're not really using this here at the moment, I have sort of borrowed the "startconsole" script from Fedora Directory Server in order to get the JES Directory Server console to run on a Mac (the console application is Java, but startconsole on JES is a platform-dependent executable. Go figure...)
In theory, this could be integrated here, as replication between the two servers is supposedly possible by convincing JES that the Fedora server is just using an older version, but there's little call for it at the moment.
Posted by sdh7 at March 3, 2006 01:11 PM
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