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12 May 2005 - ApacheDS 0.9 Released: An Enterprise Directory Server Platform

The Apache Directory team is pleased to announce the release of ApacheDS 0.9, a pure-Java LDAP server.

Our primary vision is to build an enterprise directory server platform and its components where other Internet services snap in to store their data within the directory so they may be managed using LDAP. Those services include LDAP itself, DNS, DHCP, SLP, UDDI, NTP, and most importantly Kerberos, which can integrate with the services to provide full-featured network authentication service.

Features:

• Designed as an LDAP and X.500 experimentation platform.
• The server exposes all aspects of administration via a special system backend.
• Both the backend subsystem and the frontend are separable and independently embeddable.
• Provides a server side JNDI LDAP provider which directly interacts with the backend storage.
• Powered by MINA which can handle large amounts of concurrency.

Changes in 0.9:

• Added a Kerberos plugin which provides a full Kerberos V service
• Customizable authentication
• Replaced APSEDA with MINA
• Revamped interceptor interfaces and implementations
• Added Samba / DHCP schema
• Refactored and cleaned up APIs in general
• Fixed numerous bugs

The Apache Directory team is looking for developers and users to work with the server and give feedback. Mailing list information is at: http://directory.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

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-- The Apache Directory Project