ApacheCon EU 2014

Apache Jackrabbit is just about to reach the 3.0 milestone based on a new architecture called Oak. Based on concepts like eventual consistency and multi-version concurrency control, and borrowing ideas from distributed version control systems and cloud-scale databases, the Oak architecture is a major leap ahead for Jackrabbit. This presentation describes the Oak architecture and shows what it means for the scalability and performance of modern content applications. Changes to existing Jackrabbit functionality are described and the migration process is explained.

Apache Directory Server is a LDAP server written in Java. It offers many interesting features, beside being a fully compliant LDAP server. Fortress, on the other hand, is a full ANSI RBAC (INCITS 359) implementation, which uses a LDAP server as a backend.

We will present how you can leverage both components to build a powerful authorization system that you can include into your application.