This practical guide covers each leading Internet directory services technology, their benefits, and what it takes to directory-enable your applications with them. Review each leading alternative for Internet-based directory services, including Domain Name Services (DNS), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), X.500, and Whois. Consider the Internet protocol stack from the directory perspective, understanding key interrelationships and interdepencies that directly impact the way you directory-enable your applications. Compare the leading directory programming interfaces, including Microsoft's MAPI messaging API; X/Open Directory Services API; and the University of Michigan API. Review each leading category of directory-enabled applications, and make better decisions about which to implement -- now, and in the future. For all system administrators, Web professionals, and others developing directory-enabled applications. Part of the
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Directory-enabled applications: understand the benefits, master the technologies!
- All you need to know to directory-enable your applications!
- Key concepts, protocols, standards, and APIs
- In-depth coverage of LDAP and DNS
- Reviews several powerful directory services applications
- By Bruce Greenblatt, former Novell NDS LDAP Component Design Lead
Prentice Hall Series in Computer Networking and Distributed Systems, Radia Perlman, Series Advisor
Internet Directories is the most comprehensive, practical guide to today's leading Internet directory services technologies. Bruce Greenblatt—former design lead for Novell's NDS LDAP component—introduces every key concept associated with Internet-based directory services, demonstrates the compelling advantages of directory-enabled applications, and presents real-world techniques for directory-enabling your own applications. Coverage includes:
- Detailed definitions and explanations of each Internet directory
- Extensive coverage of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Domain Name Services (DNS)
- Text-based Internet directory services: Finger, Whois, and Whois++
- Key interrelationships between directory services
- Back-end directory protocols used by Internet directory servers
- Real-world techniques for administering Internet directories
- Building LDAP browsers using Java and much more
Greenblatt provides in-depth coverage of several key directory-enabled applications, covers the APIs available for accessing Internet directories, and reviews two leading directory servers that implement LDAP: Microsoft's Active Directory and Novell's NDS.
Whether you're a sysadmin, developer, or Web professional, Internet directories offer you powerful tools for managing today's complex applications and networks. With Internet Directories, one of the field's leading experts helps you master these tools—and achieve real-world results.
About the Author
BRUCE GREENBLATT is President of Directory Tools and Services, a San Jose, CA, start-up company. He was previously Senior Principal Engineer at RSA Data Security in San Mateo, CA, and a design lead for NDS' LDAP Component at Novell, Inc.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was hired to become a Java/LDAP expert in a company and was given some material by the company to begin with. I quickly noticed that some of the material available on LDAP is not very good. I had two problems. Some books that are considered 'bibles' in this field are just too thick that I would ever have enough time to go through them. I have a busy schedule. And other books had a different problem, they were quite spesific (e.g. only showed programming LDAP with a single proprietary API and nothing else).
When I got really frustrated I went and bought this book on my own and thank god I did. This book is an excellent coverage of all the main directory topics and it does it in less pages than any of the 'bibles'. Yet it manages to go into much detail about actual protocols, layers and encoding issues. I highly recommend this book as the first (and maybe the only) book for anyone working with directories.
I did find one problem with this book, that dropped one star. The index is not good enough - often I found myself looking for a term or word that just wasn't there. I wrote to the author about it and he said he agreed. Many times I was able to find the info in the book but not mentioned in the index and it was frustrating a couple of times when I wasn't sure where in the book would the term be explained, if it was there at all.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I found this book to provide fantastic bookshelf reference on various directory technologies, including LDAP and DNS. It has been especially helpful to read the insight into these protocols, as well as the concise discussions on text-based directory protocols such as Finger, Whois, and Whois++. The book is laced with examples that help the reader get an appreciation of the intricacies that these protocols have to offer. This is a must buy for your reference shelf.
6 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book contains too much errors and not enough structure to be of use for someone that really wants to know about Internet directories in general and LDAP in particular. The text just babbles on, mixing ASN.1 encoding details with data model descriptions with communication protocols. Also, many of the examples in the book contain errors and/or do not correspond to the text referring to them. The book does give you an overview of different types of Internet directories, but it contains too much distracting details to be advised for that purpose. I bought this book because of some enthousiastic reviews here at Amazon, but I was greatly disappointed.
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