JavaSoft Creates Directory Interface
March 10, 1997, Issue: 621
Section: Top Of The Week
JavaSoft Creates Directory Interface
By Andy Patrizio
JavaSoft will announce this week the Java Naming and Directory Services
Interface, which lets Java apps communicate with network directory
services. JNDI, developed with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Netscape, and
Novell, will support Novell Directory Services, Sun's NIS, LDAP 2 and
3, and Corba naming services. In the future, it willwork with Microsoft's
Active Directory Service Interface. "This allows people to use Java in the
context of a network operating system more effectively and reach out to
existing services," says Jim Mitchell, VP of technology and architecture for
JavaSoft in Cupertino, Calif. "There's a real need for it in the enterprise,
where you're trying to find services, E-mail addresses, etc." Novell will
release a draft implementation of the spec this week.
Copyright r 1997 CMP Media Inc.
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