{"id":1140,"date":"2007-05-31T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2007\/05\/31\/most-exciting-idea-in-ages-an-atomldap-mashup\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T14:04:55","slug":"most-exciting-idea-in-ages-an-atomldap-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/most-exciting-idea-in-ages-an-atomldap-mashup\/","title":{"rendered":"Most exciting idea in ages: an ATOM\/LDAP mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met a young guy called <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/treydrake\/entry\/atom_and_ldap_sitting_in\">Trey Drake<\/a> at JavaOne. He has a really cool idea, and more importantly has built an implementation of it. We were sitting next to James Gosling so I said hey this guy is doing the coolest work at Sun Microsystems right now&#8230; I doubt James followed up, which is a shame, because Trey has created a very intriguing mashup &#8211; LDAP meets ATOM. WTF I hear you cry. Well why not? Don&#8217;t we want to associate content objects with identities? Don&#8217;t we want to bring full synchronisation, searchability and replication to ATOM stores? RESTful search using LDAP URIs? I should co-co.<\/p>\n<p>Having been on the road constantly of late, I had not had a chance to blog it, but now it appears the idea is gaining traction among the RASTA crowd (REST AGILE SCRIPTING ATOM). I expect to see multiple implementations, and ATOM just gained a clear path into the enterprise: systems management, for example, is an obvious potential context. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intertwingly.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/26\/Atom-LDAP\">Sam Ruby<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dehora.net\/journal\/2007\/05\/links_for_20070526.html\">Bill deHora<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/snellspace.com\/wp\/?p=669\">James Snell<\/a>. I am surprised no word from the Bray yet.<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough Trey is &#8220;just an evangelist&#8221;, rather than a product development guy, but I think Sun should fund the work to be productised sooner rather than later. Sun people like to quote Bill Joy that: &#8220;Innovation happens elsewhere.&#8221; It would be a shame, in my opinion, not to turn this invention into innovation at Sun, especially given Identity Management is a growth business with revenues rolling in.<\/p>\n<p>oh yeah-Sun is a client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a young guy called Trey Drake at JavaOne. He has a really cool idea, and more importantly has built an implementation of it. We were sitting next to James Gosling so I said hey this guy is doing the coolest work at Sun Microsystems right now&#8230; I doubt James followed up, which is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-io","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}