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A compilation of today's news of interest:
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From Jitu, a description of how to use JAXBContext in Metro. From the SDN Team, it is Sahoo's turn to have his 15 Minutes of Fame; check out Janice's Interview where they cover many topics, from working from India, to OSGi. Davis has a short note showing how to get started with a Servlet App using GFv3 Prelude in NetBeans 6.5. The ever-observant Adam asks whether SpringSource is Working on EJB 3.1. Not sure if he is reading a bit too much into the tealeaves, or whether somebody had an oops... From OpenDS community, Terry reports on his OpenDS Access Log Analyzer WebApp, intended for a future putback into OpenDS. And, a very complimentary testimonial about the ease of installation of OpenDS from KR in his OpenDS in 5 Minutes. And, from Wonderland they have started creating a new, high quality, public world (see WonderBlog and Angad). A nice part is that they are going to be using Blender for the graphics. Blender is an open source tool that seems to be gaining adoption, the results are very good - see for instance the trailer for The Big Buck Bunny. Blender is also a Sun offering at Network.Com/Apps/Blender (thanks to Kevin for the tip). |
Here are two quite different uses of
OpenDS
-
which recently
Reached 1.0
and is now
Commercially Supported.
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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. |
The OpenSSO Project is soliciting feedback on their Early Access Build -- OpenSSO Express Build 5. With the release of this build, community members now have the opportunity to participate in the Early Access (EA) program for Sun's next commercial offering. Review the Early Access documentation and hammer away at Express Build 5! Send your EA feedback to opensso.eafeedback@dev.java.net so we can make the product perfect. Thanks in advance!
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More pieces of how Sun leverages OpenSource into Enterprise Offerings: Sun OpenDS 1.0 is now in OpenSSO Express - check out Nick, Rajeev, or... pelegri% jar -tf opensso.war | grep -i opends .... WEB-INF/lib/OpenDS.jar |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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...
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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 ;-)
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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 |
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).
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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.
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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 :-)
Eduardo posted last week about Glassfish at Ohloh.Net. As Eduardo mentioned, Ohloh presents a view of open source projects, showing contributions and allowing registered users to 'stack' their favorite projects. A nice feature is the ability to claim your own contributions and award 'kudos' to other contributors.
All three of Sun's open source identity management projects have Ohloh pages:
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• OpenSSO (29 stacks, 5.0/5.0 rating)
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If you're using any of these projects, please consider stacking them. Even better, if you have contributed to any of these projects, go claim your contribution - you get a nice page showing what you've done 
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Although the open source directory server action is at OpenDS, Sun's existing Directory Server Enterprise Edition is widely deployed and integrated in products such as Sun Java System Access Manager and it's open source twin, OpenSSO. One of the many reasons for its popularity is its implementation of multi-master replication (MMR), the ability to deploy a cluster of Directory Server instances, each synchronizing data with the rest. Installing and configuring such a fully-connected mesh of Directory Servers is quite a laborious task, so Sun identity architect Jonathan Gershater devised a Perl script to do the legwork, then wrote it up as a Sun Developer Network article with technical author Marina Sum. Discover how Perl scripts automate Directory Server installation and configuration. |
Here are some of the Facebook groups that might be of interest to readers of TheAquarium:
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Please add those that I missed in the comments to this entry.
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• Community:
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