Customer vs Company

[Alaric B. Snell]

On Thursday 03 April 2003 21:32, plussier at mindspring.com wrote:

> I don't actually know that you can't.  As I said, I'm in the process
> of mucking with LDAP now, and it happens to be the OpenLDAP
> implementation which uses a Berkely DB backend.  I don't know that
> it can't speak SQL to a SQL db server, but that's not a model I've
> ever seen (though, you'd think someone, somewhere, would have thought
> of this and tried it out by now :)

Oracle's LDAP server does precisely that! Sadly, it's a bit lame - it 
requires a specific underlying schema for the LDAP server; when I brushed 
with it I was hoping I could set up mappings from arbitrary tables into LDAP 
objects, which was not the case. However, it may be possible to fake this 
with some insanely complex views. The schema it uses wasn't documented, but 
looked reverse-engineerable.

> Agreed. 100%.  But how do we do that?  Evolution speaks LDAP (or claims
> to, I playing with it right now against my corp. LDAP server and I'm
> 1 for 10 queries right now!) but not SQL.  GnuCash is going to speak
> SQL, but not LDAP.  So what kind of intermediary solutions are there?

Take the official Gnome line and use a CORBA interface?

ABS

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