OpenDJ is an LDAPv3 compliant directory service, which has been developed for the Java platform, providing a high performance, highly available, and secure store for the identities managed by your organization. Its easy installation process, combined with the power of the Java platform makes OpenDJ the simplest, fastest directory to deploy and manage.
The project is led by ForgeRock who integrate the OpenAM, OpenIDM, OpenDJ, OpenICF, and OpenIG open source projects to provide a quality-assured ForgeRock Identity Platform. Support, professional services, and training are available for the Identity Platform, providing stability and safety for the management of your digital identities.
To find out more about the services ForgeRock provides, visit www.forgerock.com.
To view the OpenDJ project page, which also contains all of the documentation, visit https://forgerock.org/opendj/.
For a great place to start, take a look at the OpenDJ Install Guide.
For further help and discussion, visit the community forums.
You can obtain the OpenDJ software in one of two ways;
The easiest way to try OpenDJ is to download the binary file and follow the Installation Guide.
You can download either:
- An enterprise release build.
- The nightly build which contains the latest features and bug fixes, but may also contain in progress unstable features.
In order to build the project from the command line follow these steps:
To build OpenDJ you will need the following installed on the machine you're going to build on:
| Software | Required Version |
|---|---|
| Java JDK Version | 7 and above (see below) |
| Git | 1.7.6 and above |
| Maven | 3.0.4 and above |
ForgeRock does not support the use of Java 9 for running OpenDJ in production.
You should also set the following environment variables for the majority of versions;
JAVA_HOME - set to the directory in which your SDK is installed
MAVEN_OPTS - When building with Java 7 set this to '-Xmx1g -XX:MaxPermSize=512m'. Java 8 and above does not support
MaxPermSize so set this to '-Xmx1g'.
The central project repository lives on the ForgeRock Bitbucket Server at https://stash.forgerock.org/projects/OPENDJ.
Mirrors exist elsewhere (for example GitHub) but all contributions to the project are managed by using pull requests to the central repository.
There are two ways to get the code - if you want to run the code unmodified you can clone the central repo (or a reputable mirror):
git clone https://stash.forgerock.org/scm/opendj/opendj.git
If, however, you are considering contributing bug fixes, enhancements, or modifying the code you should fork the project and then clone your private fork, as described below:
- Create an account on BackStage - You can use these credentials to create pull requests, report bugs, and download the enterprise release builds.
- Log in to the Bitbucket Server using your BackStage account credentials.
- Fork the
opendjproject. This will create a fork for you in your own area of Bitbucket Server. Click on your profile icon then select 'view profile' to see all your forks. - Clone your fork to your machine.
Obtaining the code this way will allow you to create pull requests later.
The OpenDJ build process and dependencies are managed by Maven. The first time you build the project, Maven will pull down all the dependencies and Maven plugins required by the build, which can take a significant amount of time. Subsequent builds will be much faster!
$ cd $REPO_HOME/opendj
$ mvn clean install
The OpenDJ Directory Server binaries will be built in opendj-server-legacy/target/package
ForgeRock provide a comprehensive set of documents for OpenDJ, including a installation guide.
There are many ways to contribute to the OpenDJ project. You can contribute to the OpenDJ Docs Project, report or submit bug fixes, or contribute extensions such as custom authentication modules, authentication scripts, policy scripts, dev ops scripts, and more.
ForgeRock produce an enterprise point release build. These builds use the versioning format X.0.0 (for example 3.0.0 or 4.0.0 would be enterprise releases) and are produced yearly. These builds are free to use for trials, proof of concept projects and so on. A license is required to use these builds in production.
Users with support contracts have access to sustaining releases that contain bug and security fixes. These builds use the versioning format 3.0.x. 3.0.1 and 3.5.1 for example, would both be sustaining releases. Users with support contracts also get access to quality-assured interim releases, such as the forthcoming OpenDJ 3.5.0.
See the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). The following text applies to both this file, and should also be included in all files in the project:
The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the Common Development and Distribution License (the License). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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When distributing Covered Software, include this CDDL Header Notice in each file and include the License file at legal/CDDLv1.0.txt. If applicable, add the following below the CDDL Header, with the fields enclosed by brackets [] replaced by your own identifying information: "Portions copyright [year] [name of copyright owner]".
Copyright 2016 ForgeRock AS.
To save you sifting through the readme looking for 'that link'...
- ForgeRock's commercial website
- ForgeRock's community website
- ForgeRock's BackStage server
- ForgeRock Identity Platform
- OpenAM Project Page
- OpenDJ Project Page
- OpenIDM Project Page
- OpenICF Project Page
- OpenIG Project Page
- Community Forums
- Install Guide
- Enterprise Build Downloads
- Enterprise Documentation
- Nightly Build Downloads
- Nightly Documentation
- Central Project Repository
- Issue Tracking
- Contributors
- Coding Standards
- Contributions
- How to Buy
- Sun Microsystems.
- The founders of ForgeRock.
- The good things in life.