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Prologue:
Epilogue: Roger K deBry
Senior Techncial Staff Member
Architecture and Technology
IBM Printing Systems
email: rdebry at us.ibm.com
phone: 1-303-924-4080
FYI .....
Network Briefing March 21, 1997
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Java is gradually getting the kind of support it needs if it is
to become a fully-fledged participant in enterprise systems, and Java
creator Sun Microsystems Inc is getting plenty of help from its
industry partners to fill in the blanks.
Sun has announced a JNDI Java Naming and Directory Interface
specification which will enable developers to create Java
applications with a unified way of accessing multiple naming and
directory services across networks. It includes support for Novell
Inc' s NDS NetWare Directory Services, Sun' s NIS naming service, DNS
Domain Naming Service and the standard LDAP Light Directory Access
Protocol.
The JNDI specification has been developed by Sun,
Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp, Netscape Communications Corp and
Novell. Each will develop its own implementation once the
specification, currently for review at http://java.sun.com, has been
finalised. A final version is due next quarter.
First out of the shoot claiming support is Novell, saying it
will make an early version of an JNDI implementation providing access
to NDS available to developers later this month. In addition to
Novell's Internet-enabled version of NetWare - IntranetWare - NDS
runs on Solaris, NT and other Unixes and is supported by the likes of
HP, SCO and Microsoft. JavaSoft says it will make a reference
version of the specification available in the third quarter.