Our last report was posted here:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=3919
Since then we have ...
o Vetted all IP issues within the project, namely where Snacc4J was concerned. Snickers, the Snacc4J replacement subproject, now supports BER and, in a branch maintained by Alan Cabrera, DER as well. Alan Cabrera has been progressing on his ASN.1 compiler but for the time being we have hand coded LDAP stubs. We have also integrated the new Snickers based LDAP provider as the default BER codec for the ldap-common project. This is a major step for us on the path toward exiting the incubator.
o We have retrofitted the old LDAPd code base with the newly modified ldap-common code along with Snickers. This primitive precursor to Eve now runs as it did while at sourceforge however there are no IP issues with this functional server. Users can now kick the tires on an LDAP server that works. We however see this server as more of a demo rather than the real deal which will be Eve.
o We have also made progress on another major aspect that demonstrates the viability of this project: building community. BTW, all new committers have signed and submitted their CLAs which are on file and software grants were submitted where appropriate. We have added three new committers to the project of which two are still active. - Trustin Lee joined us to work on the frontend networking code and is making progress adding UDP support to the new SEDA subproject. He will be continuing to work on making Eve's front end code serve as a gateway/proxy server to other LDAP servers soon.
- Enrique Rodriguez became a committer as well and is working on the new integrated Kerberos server which plugs into Eve for network authentication. He is also persuing the goal of writing wrappers for Eve to embed Eve into OSGi containers.
- Niclas Hedman became a commiter and started work on decoupling Eve's backend from Merlin, however some Avalon commitments have taken his time.
o We have begun to pull the backend subsystem out of the sandbox: this is almost complete. A new schema subsystem design has been added while making the move. I have also removed all depenencies on Avalon and Merlin while maintaining the wrappers for Merlin.
o Vincent continues to maintain Janus and is getting into some of the LDAP code base while writing unit test cases for them. Vincent is also working on getting all projects rigged into Gump.
o We added two new subprojects. The first is called the SEDA framework. It is basically the LDAP frontend networking code with all LDAP dependencies removed so it can run any protocol. In fact it can run multiple protocols on the same plumbing. This is what Trustin is working on most of all. The second subproject is a Kerberos server that Enrique and I had been working on just toying with from within Eve but it wound up being something very attractive so we added it to our project rather than leaving it out there. We don't expect these projects to stay under the directory umbrella forever. We feel this way especially since SEDA can be reused anywhere a Java based protocol server is needed and the Kerberos server can run in stand alone mode one day. Until then we are comfortable having them here indefinately.
o On the Naming subproject front, Phil Steitz has integrated Naming with Gump. Phil has been very busy in jakarta-commons working on getting an excellent new addition, the commons math project, out the door. Meanwhile he has been supporting inquiries about Naming and Jira issues posted on it.
Conclusions and goals ...
IMO we are doing really well and are very close to our goals. Perhaps before ApacheCon or by the next status report at the latest we should have all of Eve's parts up and running. Meanwhile we're growing the community and getting more comfortable working together to support our code base. More people are contacting us about various directory subprojects than before so ... if we build it they will come.
Once again on behalf of the Directory Team, Alex Karasulu
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