Apache Directory API with Active Directory and ObjectGUID

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Recently I needed to access an Active Directory server via Java and get some info out of it. After poking around, I decided to see if I could use the Apache Directory API to get the job done. I hit some problems pretty quick because some of their docs out of date. The docs are unclear as to how to do the bind and I couldn’t figure out the magic incantation to get it to connect/bind until I did it this way:

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  LdapConnection connection = new LdapNetworkConnection(SERVER, PORT);
  connection.setTimeOut(0);
 
  BindRequestImpl request = new BindRequestImpl();
  request.setName(USERNAME);
  request.setCredentials(PASSWORD);        
  BindResponse response = connection.bind(request);
 
  if (!connection.isAuthenticated()) {
      System.out.println("Failed to connect/authenticate");
      return;
  }

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Using ant to exec mysql .sql files via a fileset

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In trying to automate our DB development, we decided to use ant and Jenkins to run our SQL scripts for a deploy. We had a hard time getting ant to work and after much trial and error (and cussing and fussing) we finally got it to work. The key really was the addsourcefile=”false” attribute and the redirector. Since mysql can run sql from a file using redirection (< ) you have to use a redirector (which is poorly documented). The ant apply task can apply an executable to every file in a fileset, so this will use the mysql executable to exec every *.sql file it finds. Continue reading →