OpenDS continues to move forward after the Release of Sun OpenDS Standard Edition this last July. As indicated in the Roadmap the next release is OpenDS 2.2, scheduled for this Fall. The Roadmap describes a number of features, including Fractional Replication and LDAP Accessible ChangeLog, but Ludo has just published two features in the Control Panel, the ability to Manage Multiple Servers and Support for Recurrent Tasks.

Added - See Ludo's latest post on the Availability of OpenDS 2.1 build-1; and check out his explanation of the OpenDS Release Numbering System.

OpenDS 2.0 is now final. This is a major release, new functionality ranges from a new GUI to better administration, from improved performance to better reliability, from new features to improved portability. See Ludo's Announcement and this Snapshot of the Documentation.

Community builds are available here, including a ZIP and a JNLP. The Sun-supported commercial distribution is Sun OpenDS, downloadable here. This looks like a great release; congratulations to the team, and onwards with the Roadmap!

Related entries are tagged OpenDS; I'll also appends links to entries directly related to OpenDS 2.0 below.

Added

• Recurrent and Scheduled Tasks
• Monitoring in the Control Panel
• I18N Collation Matching Rules
• Assured Replication
• Replication Groups

Now that JavaOne is over, I'll try to catch up with the most important news I didn't get to in the last 2-3 weeks.

OpenDS 2.0 is scheduled to release this month (see Roadmap) and Ludo announced the Release Candidate 1 on May 25th. This is a major release with new functionality ranging from a new Assured Replication Multi-Master Replication to IBM JVM Support.

Quick download links to the Core Server, DSML Gateway and QuickSetup JNLP. Full details at the RC1 Page and at QuickSetup Tool.

This week's webinar is on OpenDS, the Open Source Java LDAP server that is at the core of the next generation for Sun's market leading DSEE Product. Ludovic will provide an overview of the project including the recent developments on the v2 release. The presentation on Thursday, April 23rdh, 11am US Pacific, at TheAquarium Channel. Full details (and recordings) at the Show Page. OpenDS has been gaining nice adoption recently; relevant entries are tagged OpenDS and OpenDS @ MarkMail. There are some very interesting synergies between OpenDS and MySQL, see for example this week's BOF at the MySQL UC.

There is now a Community-Driven project that is Localizing OpenDS 2.0 using the CTI. Languages can be added on demand, the current list includes French, German, Japanese, Polish and Spanish. Details in the posts by Hajma and Ludo, in the Wiki page and in this thread. In general, the last couple of months have seen a significant growth on OpenDS adoption (MarkMail). I think this is driven by OpenDS 2.0 and also by additional voices like Matthew.

BTW, I believe that DocWeb, James's JavaDoc-driven community translation tool, is still active. And the NetBeans and OpenOffice folks have been doing community-driven translations for quite a while. I'll try to collect general status and tools used and will report back.

Added - If you are interested in OpenDS, pencil in 11am PT on the 23rd for their online webinar. We will post details at the Webinar Page.

I cannot catch up with all the backlog of OpenDS news in a single post so for now I'll just mention the Availability of OpenDS 1.3 b2 and then I want to highlight the work related to Garbage First (G1) GC.

G1 is our most recent Garbage Collecting algorithm and it is intended to replace the current CMS (see John's Overview of JDK's GCs) in JDK7. G1 is sketched in Alex's note; more details in TS-5419 or try it by yourself in a recent OpenJDK. The OpenDS team has high demands for performance and responsivenes which makes them a good demanding customer for the G1 team (like CBOE!) and, in a recent visit, the two worked together to improve performance - see Matt's writeup. A good example of the advantage to Sun of leading both projects!

As we promised last week, OpenDS 1.2 is now available (download, changelog). Ludo has an Overview of the New Features which includes a new GUI for server and data administration, improved security, manageability and performance.

OpenDS is making good progress; I'll try to arrange a prezo for TheAquarium Online.

OpenDS is fast approaching version 1.2 (Release Candidate 2 was released late January) and Ludo has been sharing many tips for this release. Examples include: Troubleshooting OpenDS database, Disabling Schema checking, and Troubleshooting indexes and search performances.

New in OpenDS 1.2 are SVR4 package for integration into OpenSolaris (with SMF and RBAC support), a data and schema browser (Control Panel), SASL support, and increased performance over the 1.0 release. Another major version (2.0) is planned for later this year with Assured Mode as its key feature.

As always, the software can be test-driven with the simplest possible JavaWebStart-powered install. See here for a couple of brief install videos.

Added - Ludo continues to post tips; also see Control the (LDAP) controls and performance from new ASN.1 library.

Here are two quite different uses of OpenDS - which recently Reached 1.0 and is now Commercially Supported.

First as a Directory Service for OpenSolaris - see these two articles by Ludo, Marzen and Marina: Basic Setup and Advanced Configuration. The second is as An Embedded Application: Mark describes in detail how to write a portable Servlet using OpenDS so it can run on a container like GlassFish Server.

Happy 2nd B-day, OpenDS! Sun has announced the next phase of the release of Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 1.0. Sun OpenDS SE is Sun's fully supported distribution of OpenDS, the Open Source, pure-Java lighweight, embeddable LDAPv3 Server. Check out: Articles, Demos, Documentation, FAQ and Downloads. For more information, Kevin's Announcement, Ludo's Birthday Card, the Home Page, and other OpenDS posts.

The Release Candidate for OpenDS 1.0 is now available. The RC follows the earlier M1 Milestone (Feb 29th); Ludo describes it as "complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user". Check the Build Details and please provide feedback through Project Issues or the Mailing List. The first release is intended for Early July; for tentative dates for other releases check the Project Roadmap. Additional details in Ludo's Announcement.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 1st 2008, 9am PST, 6pm CET, 5pm GMT is the monthly OpenDS meeting and Gilles Bellaton will present on OpenDS replication. Check the details in Ludo's Post Also check Ludo's Call For Votes on OpenDS Issues.

PS - Tomorrow is April Fool's Day. Sun used to have Very Elaborate jokes (I remember the All The Wood Behind One Arrow). The fun seems to be back at Sun, let's see what happens tomorrow...

OpenDS, the project to produce a 100% Java-based LDAP directory now has a proposed roadmap for version 1.0 and beyond. Apart from monitoring through SNMP, all features are already in the current release (v1.0 Milestone 1 from Feb. 27, 2008). Final release for v1.0 is scheduled for May 2008. Ludo Poitou has more details. In other OpenDS news, Tomonori Shioda has posted the Japanese translation of no less than four OpenDS technical posts. Ludo has a list of them.

The illustration is a photograph from the late 18th century of a "feuille de route" (roadmap) picture for convicts once they've served their sentence. The road to liberty in a sense. I'm sure JeanFrancois appreciates the use of a truly French word here ;-)

One more step towards an 1.0 final release: OpenDS M1 is now available. Check out Ludo's annoucement and the earlier note on the OpenDS Roadmap. Actual bits are here. Enjoy!

Added - I forgot to mention Ludo's request for suggestions for OpenDS 2.0 and the corresponding concall this next Tuesday March 4th 2008, 9am PST, 5pm GMT, 6pm CET (More Details).

Ludo just posted an OpenDS Roadmap to the USERS alias. The latest OpenDS 1.0 builds (b12, b11, etc) are looking very good, so the plan is for a Milestone 1 within the next few days, a M2 in a month, and an official 1.0 release in May 2008 - which, by a coincidence, is also when J1 2008 happens :-) Check out the road map and provide feedback on all aspects, including critical issues in b12 and the initial cut at the OpenDS 2.0 features.

I have not posted on OpenDS in a bit so here are some highlights I've noticed:

• Continued progress on documentation: see a Summary of 2007 Activity.
• Helping contributions: Wiki page on How to Build and Run OpenDS within NetBeans (also see Mark and Ludo commentary).
• A lot of work on performance - for example, see this note on Search Performance.
• And, for extra points, OpenDS and VirtualBox: OpenDS on OpenSolaris on VirtualBox on MacOS X 10.5.2 on MacBook Pro.

Virtualization - Russian Dolls for geeks :-)