[Fedora-directory-users] Call for a replication project

[Hartmut Wöhrle]

Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 05:05 schrieb Richard Megginson:
>
> I think Apache DS may make a great meta-directory engine, as you have
> described.  It's probably much easier to extend it to talk to different
> types of data stores (think JDBC) than to extend Fedora DS using C
> plug-ins.
>
> For the specific case you described though, we did this at Netscape
> several years ago with our Peoplesoft HR database, using PerLDAP.  We
> would take a dump of the database, parse it with perl, and use perldap
> to send the LDAP operations to the DS.  No need for an intermediate LDIF
> file.  You may be able to do the same with an Apache DS solution, if it
> can connect directly to SAP using JDBC or something like that.
>
Oh interesting. Is this perldap available?
Could also be a starting point for a replication. Just connect to localhost 
ApacheDS  and hand it over as in the replication.

CU
Hartmut


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