University of Houston
Department of Computer Science
In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science
Amitabh Dubey
will defend his thesis
Lightweight Directory Service
Abstract
Directory services are an indispensable part of our daily lives. We use them in several ways. For example, we use the yellow pages to look up businesses, white pages to look up phone numbers, and we may use some directory to authenticate users. However, a similar functionality is not available for the Computer Science Department. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a subset of the Directory Access Protocol (DAP or X.500) and has become the platform independent Internet standard for directory services. The project, Lightweight Directory System (LDS), uses the LDAP protocol to allow users to search for faculty, staff and students and obtain useful information such as their contact information and their website. It also acts as a central source of information that can be modified at any time.
The system consists of a Directory Creator and a web-based interface to the system. A person known as the Administrator is responsible to create the directory of registered users and store some of their personal information. Registered users can modify their personal details whereas unregistered users can only view this information. The design of the system uses object oriented paradigms, and expressed in Unified Markup Language (UML) notations using the Rational Rose software by Rational Corporation. The system has been implemented using Java. Initially, the user information is stored in a Microsoft Access database.
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2001
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: 550-PGH
Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Olin Johnson