Penrose - Virtual Directory

What's Penrose?

Penrose is a java-based virtual directory server. Virtual directory enables federating (aggregating) identity data from multiple heterogeneous sources like directory, databases, flat files, and web services - real-time - and makes it available to identity consumers via LDAP.

        

What's the Features?

       Penrose Server

• Available on any platform where Java is supported
• Conversion and manipulation of Attribute values
• Namespace handling and Intelligent LDAP Queries routing
• Join and  Cache   engine
• Allow both in-memory and persistent cache
• Bi-directional synchronization via (Polling Connector   and  LDAP Sync ) architecture
• Fine Grain Access Control Information
• Denial of Service protection
• Data Source Adapters for JDBC, JNDI, Active Directory, Web Services, etc.
• Configurable Fail-Over and Loal-Balancing at the LDAP operation level
• Remote management via JMX.
• Extensible Plugin Architecture
• Run  embedded   in your application
• Run stand-alone or alongside with OpenLDAP, OpenDS or Fedora DS.

 

 

Where to get?

Penrose now is on https://fedorahosted.org/penrose/   which is a free project management site.

Download here

http://redhat01.managed.contegix.com:8085/display/PENROSE/Home

 

How can it do?

       You can check out a self-running Demo .

 

Admin Guide

      http://safehaus.org/penrose/docs/admin/html/index.html

 

FAQ:

       http://v1.safehaus.org:8080/display/PENROSE/FAQ