OpenDJ

OpenDJ is a new LDAPv3 compliant directory service, developed for the Java platform, providing a high performance, highly available and secure store for the identities managed by enterprises. Its easy installation process, combined with the power of the Java platform makes of OpenDJ the simplest and fastest directory server to deploy and manage.

OpenDJ is a extension of the Sun Microsystems' initiated OpenDS project and offers a fully supported product for it.

Key Features

• The most feature complete open source LDAP directory server product, providing interoperability LDAP clients applications and smooth integration into enterprise infrastructure
• Easy to install, configure and manage
• Multi-Master Replication provides high-availability and disaster recovery options, with an optional Assured mode to increase the guarantee of availability of the data
• 100% Java allowing for a wide choice of deployment configurations

Latest Functionality

• Support for standard based Collective Attributes, allowing flexible and lightweight data insertion for millions of entries
• Support for multiple object class inheritance, providing interoperability with X.500 and other vendors schema
• Advanced monitoring and analysis of attribute indexes and their use by applications

Why OpenDJ

• Helps you lower the cost of ownership of your infrastructure, by delivering more performances while consuming less disk, memory and cpu resources. Also reduces the administration load by automating recurrent tasks like backup.
• Provides high-availability by supporting deployments of multiple servers in a multi-master replication topology, including organization by data-centers with geographic separation, providing failover and disaster recovery.
• Stores your identity data securely. Supports different levels of authentication and authorization. Protects passwords through encryption and extensive policies. Configuration changes are audited and archived.
• Complies with LDAPv3 and DSMLv2 standards to help ensure maximum interoperability with LDAP client applications. Also supports many standard and experimental extensions as well as vendor specific extensions for easier integration.
• Can be easily integrated in existing monitoring infrastructure supporting SNMP and JMX. Custom alerts can be configured to inform administrators about specific events in the service such as password expirations, access controls disabled, backend database corruption detected...
• Being 100% pure Java, it runs on many platforms including virtualized environment. And can also be embedded in other Java applications.

Roadmap

ForgeRock is committed to the continued open development of OpenDJ and aims to meet Sun's original product roadmap for OpenDS. More details on the OpenDJ wiki.