Why is Spring LDAP not on GitHub and is the project active?

[pavel.horal]

Hi guys,

just want to ask: What is the status of Spring LDAP project?

• It seems that it is the only top level Spring project that has not been migrated to GitHub.
• Not much has been done on the source (apart from some minor changes to the logging levels).

I know that LDAP is still the same so there is no necessity for excessive activity. But still, I feel that there is close to zero attention given to the project (I am assuming by JIRA activity and the GitHub migration).

Thank you for any information on this.

[PomCompot]

I'm asking myself exactly the same question. Moreover, the Spring LDAP project is not listed on this welcome page of the Spring project : http://www.springsource.org/projects.

If it's discontinued, it's really a pain because a such convenient LDAP library is a must have when you have to interact with a LDAP. Natural Java implementation (the JDK one) sucks, and there aren't really a lot of alternatives. Most of all, Object Directory Mapping “à la” JPA is really nice.

[shilam]

the project is listed in the welcome page under More Spring Projects, but still looks not maintained and I wonder if I should use it or just go with plain jndi.
browsing the forum posts i don't see active developers answering questions.

[PomCompot]

The fact is that Spring LDAP is a breeze while plain JNDI is a pain… Will try to see if I can contact somebody to get information on that through some other way than the forum.