The Netscape Directory Server is the key component for managing information about employees, partners and customers for your Web applications. This site provides technical and business resources to help you directory-enable your applications and understand the importance of directories in the enterprise.
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New Book: LDAP Programming with Java
Learn how to develop directory applications in Java, from the basics of LDAP to the more sophisticated features of the Directory SDK for Java.
An Org Chart View of LDAP Directory Data: Using Attribute-Based Relationships
(based on the book LDAP Programming with Java)
Netscape announces
Directory for Secure E-Commerce, which includes Directory Server 4.0. Download it here.
Embedding Directory Server in Your Application
Directory and Security Services
Speed Your Application Development With Netscape Directory, Security, and Administration Technologies
Directory Support for Linux
Implementing LDAP, a book from Netscape Directory Champion Mark Wilcox
Coverting Data Between UTF-8 AND Latin-1 - When storing and retrieving data
from the directory, you may want to convert data between UTF-8 AND Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)
The Old Way...
Some software vendors still provide a service in their application to manage user and group information. The
result of this proliferation of directories is a management overhead for customers (see below). Additional
directories make life more complicated for customers and drain your development time and costs. Before
Netscape's Directory Server, your customers' network probably looked like this:
