Team: I would like to see about proposing the development of an additional realm module for tomcat. I have begun some design on this and think it will meet the needs of many folks out there utilizing LDAP. I would like to propose a native LDAP realm module that allows utlization of ldap features that may or may not be possible through the JNDI layer.
The items I am looking at designing into this module are: 1-Connection pooling to support high performance access 2-HA capabilities to support failover if a server goes away 3-Authentication via the server rather than comparison of the passwords in digested forms (this option will also be supported) 4-support for other realm group models (still checking into this). 5-User location without DN identification (no need to be able to build the DN to find the user) 6-SSL support for communications The LDAPRealm module will contain and deliver all the functions that the current JNDI module provides, but will also include additional functions for high performance and HA support as well as native LDAP functionality. I have started preliminary work on this, but wanted to see what the group thought about this. I have been watching a couple queries from the list on this as well as chatting with other folks on the net about their use of LDAP. Thanks, Tony -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
