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

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.

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.

And it is out! This morning Ludo announced the Release of OpenDS 1.0! You can download the Core Server or the DSML Gateway or use a Java WebStart to launch it. For more details go to the Open DS home page or directly to the Promoted Build Information. Many congratulations to the team!

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 ;-)

Manveen describes How to Use LDAP for User Authentication in GlassFish. These are a bit more detailed than the earlier OpenLDAP and GlassFish and GlassFish and OpenDS. Enjoy! And, for sure smiles, go check Dilbert.COM.

OpenDS, the 100% Java implementation of an LDAP v3 directory has reached the 0.9 milestone earlier this week. At this point, it is an LDAP v3 compliant directory with multi-master replication and access controls just to name the main features. Next stops are the beta release and a 1.0 version later this year. In the mean time a Summer 2007 Bugfest has just started with prizes for people helping fix as many as 130 defects listed today.

OpenDS comes with a Java Web Start installer and data to populate the directory. It really doesn't get any easier than that to start using an LDAP directory. If you need to speak XML to OpenDS rather than LDAP, the DSML gateway (implemented as a WAR archive) is also available.

Check also the cool uses of OpenDS as presented by Ludo at the San Francisco GlassFish Day in May 2007.

I like Trey's approach (shown at GlassFish Day) to spreading the word about OpenDS by building some useful and interesting artifacts. I believe his OpenID server has not yet been released but the Atom Server (GlassFish front-end, OpenDS back-end) has and it is getting some nice recognition ([1], [2], [3], [4]). Trey has a nice post Describing the Project. Additional details at the project website and wiki. To integrate OpenDS with GlassFish check Trey's earlier entry.

OpenDS has lots of configuration options and they're all stored in the directory. While this makes administration convenient for those with an intimate knowledge of the configuration tree and LDAP command line tools the uninitiated will likely run away screaming. As part of our continued effort to make LDAP more accessible to the masses a JMX interface to OpenDS is now available and accessible via JConsole. No client installation required! To get started, launch JConsole and follow along using the screen shots here.

OpenDS is a highly configurable and customizable directory server with numerous built-in extension points. For those cases where pre-defined hooks are just not enough OpenDS provides a simple and safe facility for injecting your custom business logic. Checkout this simple example and let us know what you think.

I believe OpenDS will turn out to be a very popular project. The team has been taking a soft-launch approach but they actually are already in pretty good shape - check the OpenDS tag for some earlier news. Trey recently wrote a blog entry contrasting LDAP with RMDBS. In part it boils down to whether your application data is better modeled by Trees or Tables. Check out Trey's blog. You may want to also check the LDAP page at Wikipedia, and the latest standard spec, LDAPv3, at IETF

Earlier this week we reported on how to store identities with OpenLDAP for use in GlassFish's authentication. Now Trey describes, in detail, how to achieve the same Using OpenDS, the new high-performance, Java-based, open source directory server that we have covered in earlier spotlights.

Trey's note is very complete and covers how to install OpenDS, sample data for the directory and how to load it, how to use the GlassFish's administration console to configure authentication using LDAP, how to configure web.xml and sun-web.xml, and even a web app configured following these instructions.

Vey nice! Check it out!

GlassFish Security Realm support LDAP-based security. This can be used with a number of LDAP-based directory servers, including OpenDS, which we have covered previously here. Now Krishnan provides detailed steps on how to use OpenLDAP with GlassFish. Check out the details at Krishnan's Blog