Amazon.com info for 'Implementing LDAP'

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Amazon.com reviews:

Rating: 2 Summary: Theory not practicality
Comment Not a bad LDAP overview but I was looking for something more in-depth into the LDAP protocol.

Rating: 1 Summary: Don't buy this one!
Comment Hi, I bought this book in order to understand better LDAP and in order to install OpenLDAB. Well, this book is not enought compared to the free reference at the openLDAP, so forget to buy this one and look another book.

Rating: 1 Summary: Unreadable
Comment I needed a crash course into LDAP, and that book was the only one available - and for a good reason! The author, while probably a competent engineer, is a complete failure as an author / teacher. He cannot express even simple concepts. After spending a few frsutrating days with this book, I turned to other texts. Now, already understanding LDAP, I still find most of this book misleading at best. Of course, lack of editorial review did not help this book either; many places in the book don't make sense not just from technical, but also from grammatical standpoint.
Don't waste your time on this one - read "Ldap: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications With Lightweight Directory Access Protocol".
Or even better, simply install iPlanet LDAP server and read the documentation.

Rating: 3 Summary: This book is a bit disorganised
Comment There is little depth to this book and the reader needs to do a lot of sifting to extract valuable information. Even after doing that, the information obtained is still fuzzy. Beginners may get confused whilst non-beginners may find the book frustrating for lack of substance. I'd try a different book.

Rating: 3 Summary: Written for the implementor-beginner
Comment Yes I guess the title states that. I am not an implementor, yet wanted to understand more about this LDAP thing as a system designer (with a strong RDBMS background). So I only read the first 3 chapters - after that the book becomes heavy-duty detail level.

In summary, I found the first 3 chapters well explained, but not conceptual enough for me. It is written at a lower level, but sometimes a bit too simplistic.

Still, I would recommend the book for the implementor who is a beginner at LDAP. The book is vendor independent, and you'll learn much about recent market offerings.