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Title: LDAP : Programming Directory-Enabled Apps by Mark Smith, Timothy A. Howes ISBN: 1-57870-000-0 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good introductory book, but could be much better
Comment: This book has the distinction of being written by the two guys who probably know more about LDAP than anyone else. Accordingly, you might expect a great deal of solid technical material about how LDAP works. What this book instead delivers is a 462-page description of the University of Michigan LDAP API routines.
Don't get me wrong-- the documentation is useful, but the examples are all extremely simplistic, and many of them won't even compile or run if you type them in verbatim.
If you need to write LDAP-enabled softare, this is about your only choice. For simple applications, this will probably teach you everything you need. If you want to write a server, or a real LDAP DUA or ADUA, this book will get you started, but no more.
Rating: 2
Summary: Hmmm...OK but not as comprehensive as desired
Comment: Since the amount of books dealing with LDAP is still rather thin, I eagerly anticipated the arrival of this one in hopes that it would help cement my understanding of the topic. I fully-realized that this was a programmer-centric book and as a programmer had no reservations along those lines. My hesitancy was based upon the publisher, New Riders. Unlike O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley or Prentice-Hall, my experience wtth New Riders-published books has been spotty at best.
Nevertheless, I plunged forward and made the purchase in the hopes that the authors (co-authors of the LDAP spec) would be another Kernighan and Ritchie-type duo.
Very little background (and I consider it to be essential) is presented on LDAP. Instead, the authors plunge immediately into code examples. Futhermore, the URLs shown in the code don't work (granted the book was published in 1997). In short terms, there's not much here that can't be gleaned from the man pages or looking at the OpenLDAP source code.
The saving grace of the book reside in the appendices and in chapter 17, "Using the Copmmand Line LDAP Tools". These pages alone (and they constitute a good chunk of the book's volume) are sufficient to make my investment in this volume not wasted. It is hoped that the authors update this title. As recognized authorities on LDAP, they have the means to produce *the* canonical volume on ths subject.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good intro, but not much more
Comment: One day I was told I needed to learn LDAP, so I ran out and got this book. The first three chapters basically told me what I needed to know. The rest wasn't as helpful, and I ended up on the web answering questions for myself.
I had a hard time getting the referenced LDAP distribution running, and once I did I found other resources to be of more service. It helped me get a base prototype running, but if I had to develop an LDAP system for production use, I'd probably just buy a package rather than build one myself (and using this book for reference.) My time is more valuable that this.
Its too bad they can't just roll the first three chapters into a far cheaper book. In the end that was the most valuable part, and you could have easily published that content on the web.
Get a used version, or borrow a friend's.
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Title: Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition) by Timothy A. Howes, Mark C. Smith, Gordon S. Good, Tim Howes ISBN: 0672323168 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 02 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Active Directory Programming by Gil Kirkpatrick ISBN: 0672315874 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 30 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Building LDAP-Enabled Applications with Microsoft's Active Directory and Novell's NDS by Bruce Greenblatt ISBN: 0130621455 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 26 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter ISBN: 1565924916 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 20 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming by Charles Oppermann ISBN: 0735610371 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 30 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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