Re: IDL interface for LDAP

[David L. <dav...@cs...>]

Dave,

this is a good idea. 
can you reply with an URL to the published Java API please?

thanks

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, lcspub raved thusly:

> Hi Dave...:)
> 
> I  emailed Kurt Zelinega of OpenLDAP about his desire for a C++ api for
> LDAP.
> 
> I thought I'd run some ideas by you and the Python folks.
> 
> I'm heavily involved in the Berlin Project which is an OO gui written in
> C++ and using CORBA.
> 
> In investigating what a C++ api might look like I decided that a CORBA
> binding would be necessary.
> 
> Given the published JAVA api for LDAP and your desire to see a Python
> one, maybe we can/should come up with a uniform set of IDL interfaces
> that can generate the proper stubs and skeletons for the various
> language bindings.
> 
> We at Berlin Project use omniORB as our orb and it now has Python
> support as well as C++ and Java.
> 
> A good IDL interface would standardize across the three languages and
> might form the basis for an extention to CORBAservices or IIOP for
> support of  networked directory objects.
> 
> Let me know what you think...:)
> 
> Arrow (Dave Archer)
> 

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