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Summary: Several mistakes.
Review: At the begining of the book it's quite useful for any beginner but later on the more reading the more discovering of mistake & misunderstand of author. Though author try to explain several terms or concept but as it's not the correct information which I think it's is dangerous part. as potentially leading reader who don't have any backgroud to understand the wrong information / perception. Below is one of them... eg. on Page 368 , The author try to describe the definition of "SmartCard" as ID Badges with magnetic strips that contain the actual certifcate.. Which is not right. "SmartCard" and "magnetic strips card" are impossible to be equivalent in any situations.
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Summary: Excellent Book for a Beginner
Review: Being new to LDAP, I found this book to be an invaluable to to get up to speed using LDAP via our Intranet. A nice balance between theory and implementation. Two thumbs up!
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Summary: Don't buy this one!
Review: Hi, I bought this book in order to understand better LDAP and in order to install OpenLDAB. Well, this book is not enought compared to the free reference at the openLDAP, so forget to buy this one and look another book.
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Summary: Fair draft, but improve it, and it would be very good.
Review: I am up to page 168 of this book. So far it has been sufficiently worthwhile to read, so I plan to continue to the end. There are several good aspects as well as unfortunate ones. First the bad news, therefore leaving a better taste in ones brain.'Implementing LDAP' seems to suffer from lack of editorial review. For ex, page 163, a sentence reads "In an asynchronous operation, you might set an LDAP search running, freeing your computer is to perform other tasks(...)". The sentence needs to be corrected by removing "is". There are numerous examples of this type of mistake. Either Mark, in being the Champion he is, had to stay up way too many nights to write this book, or Wrox press did not bother to review his work. I suspect the later. Further, the work presents several different explanations on at least one term. For example, about RDNs, it explains "In general, when we talk about an RDN, we usually mean the left most part of a DN". (p 148) Yet earlier in the text, it is stated that "The DN is made up of components, each of which is called a relative distinguished name (RDN)" (p 48). These two definitions are somewhat different. I, the reader, am left to resolve this. (By doing my own editorial review ? ) Yet, on a more positive note, I found this text one of the more readable, and less filled with "fluff" than other texts. One text I had attempted put me so to sleep, and was filled with how "LDAP would solve this and that and marketing people like it, and so did CEO's etc". It was one of those big door stoppers. "Implementing LDAP" does not seem to suffer as much from this. It is a worthwhile read, especially for the discount price I got it from in a NYC discount book shop (which is filled with newer texts). The above kind of thing is usually the norm in most software literature that is out there, especially by lesser known outfits. (I never have this kind of problem with O'Reilly.) With this in mind, I believe "Implementing LDAP" deserves the rating I gave it. To WROX - proofread it and I'll give it 4 out of 5.
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Summary: Don't buy this one!
Review: I needed a crash course into LDAP, and that book was the only one available - and for a good reason! The author, while probably a competent engineer, is a complete failure as an author / teacher. He cannot express even simple concepts. After spending a few frsutrating days with this book, I turned to other texts. Now, already understanding LDAP, I still find most of this book misleading at best. Of course, lack of editorial review did not help this book either; many places in the book don't make sense not just from technical, but also from grammatical standpoint.
Don't waste your time on this one - read "Ldap: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications With Lightweight Directory Access Protocol".
Or even better, simply install iPlanet LDAP server and read the documentation.
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Summary: 'Tis poorly written, 'tis true
Review: If in every section 10% of the paragraphs would have been cut, if Wrox press would have used a spell checker, and if an editor would have been allowed in the building, it's possible that I would have been able to focus on the content. My head is still dizzy from shaking it back and forth while reading this book. The author does seem like a nice guy. Better luck next time, Mark.
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Summary: Good Reference for Implementation
Review: Mark Wilcox has written a book that presents the theory of LDAP and explains a typical implementation with examples using the Perl, C, Java and SSJS SDK's. I have been using LDAP for about six months and I found this to be a great reference, especially the examples. Further, Mark made himself available to assist with some of the source code example modifications. I have begun to think of LDAP in different ways now that I can see the implementation with tools besides my primary (Perl). P.S. I own the Tim Howes book re: LDAP, but it tends to be more theory andless implementation.
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Summary: Theory not practicality
Review: Not a bad LDAP overview but I was looking for something more in-depth into the LDAP protocol.
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Summary: Repetitive, poorly edited.
Review: Reading this book was my introduction to LDAP. It stressed first concepts well but then began to repeat them over and over, meanwhile glossing over more advanced issues. Some of the grammatical constructs in the book were difficult to manage at best and should have been caught by an editor. Overall it was somewhat useful, but a much better book is "Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services" (Howes, Smith and Good). I recommend it to anyone who has been tasked with implementing an LDAP project.
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Summary: This book is a bit disorganised
Review: There is little depth to this book and the reader needs to do a lot of sifting to extract valuable information. Even after doing that, the information obtained is still fuzzy. Beginners may get confused whilst non-beginners may find the book frustrating for lack of substance. I'd try a different book.
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