March 07, 1997, TechWire
JavaSoft Creates Directory Interface
By Andy Patrizio
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- JavaSoft will announce the week of
March 10 the Java Naming and Directory Services Interface, which will
let Java apps communicate with network directory services. JNDI,
developed with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Netscape Communications and
Novell, will support Novell Directory Service, Sun's Network
Information Service (NIS), LDAP 2 and 3, and Common Object Request
Broker Architecture (CORBA) naming services. In the future, it will work
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," said Jim Mitchell, VP of technology
and architecture at JavaSoft. "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 the same week.
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