RE: GNOME registry

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

	Hmmm... If we write the JDNI api into a library, and then add the
ability to use modules for the different ways of saving the data, this would
work. 

> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:51:06 Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> > Aaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
> > Yuuuuccckkk..........
> > Sorry, the word "registry" is corrupt for all time, thanks to Microsuck.
>:)
> > 
> > There, that being said, maby somthing like this would be a good idea.
> The
> > implamentation has to be far better then the winblowz "registry".
> Actually
> > readable.
> > 
> > I think somthing like this needs to be a system wide thing, not just
> GNOME.
> > Maby a library for config saving should be created. The library could
> have
> > different modules for different ways of saving the data. One for flat
> files
> > in /etc, one for LDAP, etc. It would be a good idea to modle it after
> PAM.
> > Then, if you have a stand alone box, you can use standard flat files,
> and if
> > you have a large network of unix boxes, you could place all the settings
> in
> > a LDAP directory.
> 
> LDAP is probably what we want for the backend [...can CORBA use LDAP for
> its
> registry needs?], but something like the JNDI (Java Naming and Directory 
> Interface) would be very cool as the API; i.e., one client side API that
> can
> transparently access multiple backend directory services in a common
> fashion.  
> 
> JNDI is very nice and well worth examining/using/copying.
>  
> --
> Mark Hamstra
> Bentley Systems, Inc.
> 
> 
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