Package apacheds: Information

The Apache Directory Server is an embeddable LDAP server implemented
in pure Java. It has several features that make it unique amoung
LDAP servers. These features are described below:
* Designed as an LDAP and X.500 experimentation platform. Plugable
  components and subsystems make ApacheDS extremely modular and ideal
  for experiments with various aspects of the LDAP protocol.
* The server's frontend is completely separable from its backend
  and vice-versa making it very flexible for implementing virtual
  directories, proxy servers and gateways to X.500.
* Several backends can be implemented and plugged into the server's
  partition nexus. The server supports a BTree based partition out of
  the box but any backing store can be used to implement a partition
  so long as it conforms to interfaces.
* The server exposes aspects of administration via a special system
  backend. LDAP can be used to manage these concerns through the
  system naming context at ou=system.
* Java based triggers and stored procedures are being implemented.
* Both the backend subsystem and the frontend are separable and
  independently embeddable.
* The server contains a server side JNDI LDAP provider as the facade
  for the entire backend subsystem. JNDI operations are directly
  translated by this provider into operations against the nexus and
  the target partitions storing server entries.
* The server will use JNDI as the data access API for stored procedures.
  This will make stored procedures functional within and outside of
  the server without requiring recompilation.
* The server's networking code, MINA, Multipurpose Infrastructure for
  Network Applications was designed for pluggable protocol providers,
  of all sorts and not just LDAP. MINA gives ApacheDS the ability to
  handle large amounts of concurrency.
* The server uses the Snickers tools and APIs for ASN.1 BER encoding
  and decoding. These tools are designed for a very small encoding
  and decoding footprint as well as for use in non-blocking servers.

Package apacheds: Information

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