RE: perl-ldap book

[Voglmaier, R. E. <rv33100@GlaxoWellcome.co.uk>]

Graham,

I agree with Paul, a cook-book of how to use Net::LDAP and comments about
the internals would be great.
Your package contains a number of objects, interdepending from each other.
To have a schema of the interdepencies
would help very much of who's beginning work with your package. btw
compliments for the design !!!!!!!!!!!!!


> Examples are great, though please be sure to include at least one or
> two chapters for the gearheads who want to know the nasty details of
> what's going on in there. (Not that we couldn't just read the
> code.....)
>  
> > We would like to fill these chapters with the most relevant topics
> > we can, so we thought we would ask the largest, most inteligent
> > resource we have, which means we won't be asking here :) Er no
> > seriously, we would be glad to hear from anyone what areas of LDAP
> > would be the most useful to cover.
> 
> I'd vote for a step-by-step example chain that shows how to *create* an
> entire directory, from building a root DN up. If that's not an option,
> references would be good, but I *hate* having to go through iPlanet's
> GUI for so much. I'd rather edit the core LDIF's by hand, lol....
> 
	[Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich]  I am finishing a book about LDAP in
this moment. The goal of this book is
	to help the beginner to make the first steps in LDAP land. There's a
chapter that does exactly this,
	but .....   I am using the command line tools since I assume that
they are available everywhere.

> (Most people probably don't mind it so much, but I *really* prefer to
> stay away from proprietary pieces of any puzzle as much as I can. We
> just migrated to iPlanet by company mandate, which I don't expect to
> last any longerthan any of our other company "standards". I want to
> keep my options as portable as possible for the next nasty
> migration....)
> 
	[Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich]  iPlanet is not the worst thing that
could happen to you, its very similar in design with
	OpenLDAP that IMHO is a very good implementation inasmuch it is very
close standard oriented.

> Also, LDAP is handy for a lot of things besides the obvious uses it
> gets shoehorned into. How about some examples of how to use Net::LDAP
> to build custom objects and attributes? Or is that out of the intended
> scope?
	[Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich]  Be careful about custom objects and
attributes, rather look if what you need is just defined by any standard. It
comes sooner or later the moment you will want to integrate your application
with a commercial product or with another application. If you try to follow
standard you will not have hard problems, if not, who kwnows ...............

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