RE: JLDAP vs. JNDI

["David Parker" <david.parker@rocketsoftware.com>]

Thanks for the link, Sunil. We are going to move our app over to JLDAP!

- DAP

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunil Kumar [mailto:sunilk@novell.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:55 AM
> To: sergey.oudaltsov@clients.ie; David Parker
> Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: RE: JLDAP vs. JNDI
> 
> 
> David,
>     You can very easily do such kind of stuff using JLDAP API.  The
> sample code  at:- 
> 
> http://developer.novell.com/ndk/doc/samplecode/jldap_sample/as
> ynchronous/Searchas.java.html
> 
> 
>  demonstartes how you can do this using JLDAP classes. You 
> can also set
> the batchSize using LDAPSearchConstraint object, which will 
> provide you
> a control over the size of result after which you want 
> getResponse() to
> return.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> Sunil.
> 
> 
> >>> "David Parker" <david.parker@rocketsoftware.com> 1/9/2004 2:41:15
> AM >>>
> Thanks.
> 
> Well, that's what I thought, too, but the problem is that the 
> executing
> thread is still not going to get any data back from the 
> search until all
> the results are returned from the server, as far as I can tell.
> 
> The concern is not so much to allow the client to do other operations
> while the search is executing, but to be able to display each 
> result as
> it is returned from the server, i.e., to start displaying 
> results one at
> a time before all results have been returned. So, even though 
> we execute
> the search in a separate thread, in practice the user is going to be
> waiting for the results anyway, and with JNDI the first result is not
> going to be available until ALL the results are returned from the
> server. At least, that's the way I interpret the behavior I'm 
> seeing...
> 
> Does the distinction I'm making make sense? I am 
> extrapolating from the
> way the LDAP C API works. Just executing the JNDI search in a separate
> thread doesn't seem to solve my problem, but it's entirely 
> possible I'm
> not understanding either the JNDI or the C API properly!
> 
> - DAP
> 
> 
> > > we discovered that there doesn't seem to be any way to do 
> > an asynchronous search.
> > You really do not need it. Just perform search in a thread different
> > from the Swing worker thread - and simple JNDI synchronous 
> > searches will
> > do.
> > 
> > I do not know about JLDAP but I know Java a bit. Multithreading is
> the
> > best solution for problems like this. Ever did JDBC queries from
> GUI?
> > Same story.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sergey
> > 
> > 
> > 
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