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I did some experimentation with the technique for integrating LDAP data into XPlanner I wrote about yesterday. Unfortunately the results were not encouraging.
The JdbcLDAP Bridge does provide some basic JDBC access to LDAP. However, it has some serious limitations when used with Hibernate. The getMetaData() function returns null in the released version of the JAR […]
I’ve been thinking about the problem of integrating existing LDAP user profiles into the XPlanner domain model. This is something that has been requested from users with large-scale XPlanner installations. The challenge is how to make the domain model easily and uniformly accessible to the XPlanner code when it’s partitioned across a combination of relational […]
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.” — Alfred Adler
David J. Anderson has recently stated the opinion that trust is the essence of agile development methods. He says that trust is more of what agile is all about than short feedback loops and a focus on people […]
XPlanner was originally developed to support a distributed XP team. This team had been using note cards successfully for over a year but a key stakeholder had been required to travel extensively and they wanted to monitor the development progress. Later, we used XPlanner as part of a larger tool suite to support distributed […]
Have you worked on a project with multiple customers representing multiple customer roles? For example, there may be a product manager role, a customer support role, a system operator/administrator role, and so on. I’ve seen this happen several times. The stories might also be conceptually organized into new features and technical debt (including refactoring […]