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01 April 2008 - 01:46Jumping on the Java Bandwagon

We've written a lot about Java on this blog, and its inherent inefficiencies. Still, despite its problems, it's definitely growing in popularity, while the number of good C programmers continues to decline. As such, it seems inevitable that the OpenLDAP Project will have to develop a Java implementation of slapd sooner or later. So today we've unveiled an experimental build of slapd written in Java from the Symas skunkworks. Initial results are encouraging; its performance appears to be on par with the C implementation. More details on the design approach will be presented at the upcoming OpenLDAP Developers' Day conference.

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six comments:

Well done! That is some seriously tight Java code, coming in at around 1k. Very impressive indeed! You should submit a talk for JavaOne! I wonder if this includes triggers and stored procs?

Chris Custine (URL) - 01 04 08 - 08:34 - reply to Chris Custine

I particularly like the feature where searches against unindexed attributes use less processor time and respond quicker!

Jordan Heyman () (URL) - 01 04 08 - 10:40 - reply to Jordan Heyman

@Jordan Heyman: Woof, woof.

Jan-Piet Mens (URL) - 02 04 08 - 16:39 - reply to Jan-Piet Mens

@Chris Custine: Yeah, I used this super-cool compression/optimization approach…

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[hyc] () (URL) - 02 04 08 - 17:27 - reply to [hyc]

This is so outdated … Writing a java LDAP server ? Are you kinding ? Apache has tried, Sun has tried, who do you think you are you might be successful ?
The problem is not the language at all, but the new kids in the block just want Ruby, Erlang or Scala !

Emmanuel Lécharny () (URL) - 02 04 08 - 22:41 - reply to Emmanuel Lécharny

Java? Bandwagon? Ruby? Erlang? All of these are SOOOOO YESTERDAY… how about groovy and grails…

Tom Maguire () - 07 04 08 - 04:11 - reply to Tom Maguire

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