OpenDJ

OpenDJ
OpenDJ
OpenDJ2.4ControlPanel.png
OpenDJ 2.4 Control Panel
Initial release December 21, 2010; 10 months ago (2010-12-21)
Stable release Release 2.4.4 / October 14, 2011; 31 days ago (2011-10-14)
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
Type Directory service
License CDDL
Website http://opendj.forgerock.org/

OpenDJ is a free, open source Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAPv3) and Directory Service Markup Language (DSMLv2) compliant directory service written in the Java programming language. OpenDJ began as a fork of the OpenDS code base[1], which originated in 2005 as an internal project at Sun Microsystems started by Neil A. Wilson, and later grew into an open source project, maintained by Oracle Corporation[2] following Oracle's acquisition of Sun. OpenDJ source code is available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).[3]

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History

OpenDJ began after the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. At that time, Oracle announced that Sun OpenDS Standard Edition was not seen as a strategic product[4], although the investment on the OpenDS source code would continue. Sun had supported commercial versions of Sun OpenDS Standard Edition since version 1.0 in 2008.

Mid-September 2010, Ludovic Poitou, then OpenDS community leader and co-project owner, left Oracle[5] for ForgeRock.

In October 2010, Oracle provided an OpenDS 2.2.1 update to the community with several fixes[6].

In December 2010, ForgeRock released OpenDJ 2.4.0 including fixes and support for new features like Collective Attributes, Microsoft Active Directory Permissive Modification Control, and multiple objectclass inheritance[7].

In late January 2011 Matthew Swift, previously "responsible for the core server" of the OpenDS project joined ForgeRock to work on OpenDJ as product architect[8]. Starting in mid-February 2011, ForgeRock began to build an "OpenDJ product suite, comprising an open source LDAP Directory Server, client tools, and LDAP SDK" as a Maven project[9], with the tools and SDK modules appearing first.

On February 19, 2011 Clayton Donley, Sr. Director, Development in Oracle Identity Management, insisted "that the bulk of the commits to this code base have been and continue to be made by people that remain employed by Oracle."[10]

Roadmap

ForgeRock posted an OpenDJ roadmap[11] through release 4, targeted for Q3 2013.

  • OpenDJ 2.4, released December 2010, provided improvements corresponding to many of those defined, but not yet scheduled for OpenDS 2.4[12]
  • OpenDJ 2.5 is to focus on integration with other services, attribute encryption, native packages for Linux, and the LDAP client SDK.
  • OpenDJ 3.0 is expected to include basic directory proxy services, but the support for LDAP Transactions that was originally planned was dropped due to the incompatibility with the lose consistency model of LDAP.
  • OpenDJ 3.1 and 3.2 are slated to include enhanced directory proxy services.
  • OpenDJ 4.0 is expected to introduce virtual directory services, and a web-based management console.

See Also

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References

  1. ^ "OpenDJ". http://www.forgerock.com/opendj.html. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 
  2. ^ "Opends — Project Kenai". http://java.net/projects/opends. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 
  3. ^ "FishEye: Annotated - opendj/trunk/www/OpenDS.LICENSE". http://sources.forgerock.org/browse/opendj/trunk/www/OpenDS.LICENSE?r=HEAD. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 
  4. ^ "Oracle + Sun: Identity Management Strategy (webcast)" (Flash). around 8:30. http://oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12628/lobby_external_flash_clean_480x360/default.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-22. 
  5. ^ "Moving on... - Ludo's Sketches". http://blogs.sun.com/Ludo/entry/moving_on. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 
  6. ^ "OpenDS : the Open Source Java LDAP Directory Service". http://www.opends.org/. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 
  7. ^ "IceFaces 2.0.0 and OpenDJ 2.4.0 Released". http://jaxenter.com/icefaces-2-0-0-and-opendj-2-4-0-released-33160.html. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 
  8. ^ "New OpenDJ Architect « Wild Webmink". http://webmink.com/2011/01/31/new-opendj-architect/. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 
  9. ^ "FishEye: Annotated - opendj/trunk/opendj3/README". http://sources.forgerock.org/browse/opendj/trunk/opendj3/README?r=HEAD. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 
  10. ^ "Oracle's Open Source Identity Reborn At ForgeRock". http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2003584&cid=35254580. Retrieved 2011-02-22. 
  11. ^ "OpenDJ Roadmap - OpenDJ - Confluence". https://wikis.forgerock.org/confluence/display/OPENDJ/OpenDJ+Roadmap. Retrieved 2011-11-14. 
  12. ^ "OpenDS Wiki: Open DS Roadmap". https://www.opends.org/wiki/page/OpenDSRoadmap. Retrieved 2011-02-23. 
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