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Demystifying LDAP | |
| Subject: | Why Active Directory? | |
| Date: | 2006-07-31 10:26:16 | |
| From: | javadevdc | |
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Hi, One thing I'm curious about too is the use of Microsoft Active Directory. I work mostly in open source & Java shops and yet a lot of these environments use Active Directory. When I inquire about it the response is usually Active Directory is a lot easier than OpenLdap. |
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Why Active Directory?
2006-07-31 10:35:11 Brian K. Jones |
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Active Directory *is* easier to set up than OpenLDAP, but if that's the only reason for using AD over OpenLDAP, then the decision-making process needs work, IMHO ;-)
AD is different from just about every other LDAP implementation in existence, so when I say "LDAP", I'm careful to separate that from anything having to do with AD, because it's different (surprise!).
There's no reason you can't develop against AD, though - it's just another (non-standard, ms-specific) schema is all. BTW - you can send queries to AD (or any ldap server) using IE (if you like that kind of thing). This is one plugin I can't find for firefox/mozilla, which is ironic since the same company gave birth to the code that later became Sun ONE Directory server, Netscape Server, and now Fedora Directory server.
Oh yeah, I also forgot to copy in the link to the Java LDAP browser in my last post --> http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap/