Hartmut Wöhrle wrote:
Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 05:05 schrieb Richard Megginson:
>I think Apache DS may make a great meta-directory engine, as you have
>described. It's probably much easier to extend it to talk to different
>types of data stores (think JDBC) than to extend Fedora DS using C
>plug-ins.
>
>For the specific case you described though, we did this at Netscape
>several years ago with our Peoplesoft HR database, using PerLDAP. We
>would take a dump of the database, parse it with perl, and use perldap
>to send the LDAP operations to the DS. No need for an intermediate LDIF
>file. You may be able to do the same with an Apache DS solution, if it
>can connect directly to SAP using JDBC or something like that.
>
>
>
Oh interesting. Is this perldap available?
Yes. It is included with Fedora DS. See clients/orgchart/bin/org and
slapd-hostname/ns-newpwpolicy.pl for some usage.
Also,
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/directory/tools/ has some
scripts we used to use at Netscape for pushing the peoplesoft data into
the DS.
Could also be a starting point for a replication. Just connect to
localhost
ApacheDS and hand it over as in the replication.
CU
Hartmut