Building LDAP-Enabled Applications with Microsoft's Active Directory and Novell's NDS - Softcover

Greenblatt, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130621455 ISBN 13: 9780130621450

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a vendor-neutral standard for accessing directory information. This book shows how to develop custom LDAP solutions in both Active Directory and Novell Directory Services (NDS) environments, with examples in Java. Three application case studies illustrate Internet directories in action. There is also information on using XML with LDAP. The book is for Active Directory and NDS software developers, especially those involved with client-server or three-tier software development tools. Greenblatt is president of a private-sector consulting firm. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

From the Back Cover

The only applied guide for LDAP development in Active Directory and NDS environments.

• LDAP—the open standard for directories
• Integrate LDAP into your Active Directory and NDS applications
• Explained by one of the world's top directory authorities!

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral standard for accessing directory information. Using LDAP, developers can transform directories built in Active Directory and Novell Directory Services (NDS) into extendable, multiplatform, Internet-enabled solutions. In this book, Bruce Greenblatt—one of the world's leading directory experts—shows exactly how to develop custom LDAP solutions in both Active Directory and NDS environments. With examples in Java, and with the near-universal access afforded by LDAP, this book provides the tools you need to make your distributed applications more widely available than ever before.

Greenblatt begins with a discussion of LDAP and how it fits in with Internet standards, then explains LDAP schema design and security concepts. After detailed coverage of LDAP implementations in Active Directory and NDS, and an overview of how to use LDAP with Java, Greenblatt gives a first-hand look at Internet directories in action and walks through three complete application case studies-storage management, e-commerce, and a Web-based chat room. He then demonstrates how to access LDAP-enabled applications using Java servlets, Java applets, and Active Server Pages. Finally, you'll learn about LDAP's limitations (and how to work around them!) and also how to use XML with LDAP. Background information on Internet technologies, networking, and security is provided throughout. You'll learn how

• LDAP can dramatically increase the reach of your distributed applications
• To enable LDAP in Active Directory and NDS applications, step by step
• To integrate LDAP technology into your own applications

This book is designed for Active Directory and NDS software developers, especially those involved with client-server or three-tier software development tools.

About the Author

BRUCE GREENBLATT is widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on directory technology, messaging, and messaging management systems. He has worked for IBM, Veritas, RSA, and Novell, where he was one of the developers of NDS. Currently, Greenblatt is the president and co-founder of Directory Tools and Application Services.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130621455
• ISBN 13: 9780130621450
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208