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Summary: This book is very poorly titled
Review: Focusing solely on Netscape's Directory SDK with the Netscape Directory Server, a more appropriate title would have been Netscape Directory Server via the Netscape Java Directory SDK.If you are not working with these specific tools, this book will be useless to you.
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Summary: LDAP Programmers for Java Must Buy
Review: I found this book is very useful. It provides many concrete examples and makes readers easy to understand.
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Summary: The Rosetta Stone
Review: I have read a lot about LDAP over the past month during my research on an enterprise-scale authentication solution. I was sure that LDAP was part of the solution. Unfortunately, all the material seemed to be in two veins: 1. API Documentation (which assumed I already had the basic structure designed) 2. Generalities about LDAP and directories (which gave me no strategic insight on how to actually solve a design problem) This book is different. It actually leads you through a process that will make you able to design solutions with LDAP. To my knowledge, there is no other book that does so. Yes, it is true that it was rather self-serving to base the book on Netscape's API for LDAP (read 'please buy my company's directory'). I'm not sure why I would recommend a technology because it it standards-based, and then use a proprietary API! However, the examples are still useful, even if you end up actually coding in JNDI (which is obviously what we should do). This book is practical without techie-nerd rambling. I opened the book to a random page, and the heading says "I Want Only One Record and I have the DN". This is typical. Much of the book is in the form of "Problem => Solution". What more can I say? OK, guys, very well done, but you don't get that last star because you didn't see fit to use the standard API. A follow-up book, perhaps? A *THIN* book on JDNI, maybe? Yes, as a published author, I know how publishers *HATE* thin books (as if they were sold by the pound). You can do it, though. The success of this book should give you the clout.
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Summary: Good Example for LDAP and Java
Review: I think that this book is fairly good and helpful for LDAP and Java. It gives easy description.
Especially, this help me to develope other application using the source code of this book. However, one short point is to be limited to Netscape Server Suite. I would like to say thanks to authors. Regards, Incheon Paik
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Summary: LDAP book review
Review: I was a little disappointed in the books coverage of JNDI or ADSI. It covers NDS pretty completely, but it does not cover other forms of LDAP implementation enough.
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Summary: What a great LDAP and Java book.
Review: I was looking for a book to help me with my website's authentication project and its use of LDAP and this book helped me more than the rest. It gave me great code examples, great insights on directory design and an excellent understanding of how to get my job done. I was at first a little concerned about the lack of coverage on JNDI, but then I realized it's not important to most LDAP/Java projects and it's also widely covered elsewhere. These guys zero in and missle lock on LDAP and Java and really help the reader with those 2 technologies. I really hope to they put out more texts like this soon on other technologies and information technology strategies. I would guess that other aspects of web applications and web architectures would be well covered by these authors and applicable to me and my highly trafficed website.
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Summary: Full of examples
Review: If you're like me and learn best by example, this book is perfect. From secure applets to an extensive phone book servlet - from LDAP in JavaScript to LDAP Java Beans; this book contains a seemingly inexhaustable collection of sample code that not only teaches you how to use the SDK, but stimulates your creative juices while doing so.
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Summary: Absolutely Wrong Title!!!
Review: In my opinion the title is misleading! This book is about the proprietary Netscape SDK. And probably this is a great book about... Netscape LDAP SDK. If you wish to use JNDI instead of Netscape SDK, then the book is almost useless. It's amazing that the book contains maybe one reference about JNDI.
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Summary: Nothing about JNDI ?
Review: Java has a directory API called JNDI. This book no more than acknowledge its existence. This book discusses LDAP and Netscape's Directory SDK. The author's mention that the book only covers Directory SDK. They don't provide any information on the differences between JNDI and Directory SDK, how the two can be used together or why they focused exclusively on the Directory SDK. What an oversight! The title is misleading. It should be: 'LDAP and Netscape's Java Directory API'.
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Summary: Proprietary, but portable
Review: This book is a truly excellent book, and the only poor reviews center around it's lack of JNDI coverage, which I find unfortunate. Nowhere does the book infer that it is going to cover jndi, this is the assumption of a buyer who equates the word "java" in the title with jndi. Most people who use jndi (myself included) do so to access an ldap server, so to learn jndi is a bit of an overkill. What most people don't know is that netscape's directory SDK for java will port to any ldap version 3 compliant server (and most version 2's), so although it isn't standardized like jndi, it is portable. p38 "The LDAP SDK provides communications and data handling to any LDAP compliant directory service" p51 "Other LDAP servers that comply with LDAP version 3 will also work with the code and examples in this book, and much of the code will also work with servers that support only LDAP version 2". You'll never find a clearer book on ldap, so don't let the jndi confusion throw you.
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