generated: '2026-09-13' method: searched source: https://www.novell.com/developer/ndk/ name: Novell client libraries and SDKs description: >- First-party Novell client libraries located on public package registries, plus the registry-less developer kits the Novell Developer Kit (NDK) A-Z index still lists. Registries swept 2026-09-13: npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, RubyGems, crates.io, Packagist. Only two first-party packages exist on any registry, and both are abandoned - the newest first-party release Novell ever published to a registry is 2014-02-12. Every remaining NDK component is distributed as a downloadable archive and all of those download hosts are now dead (ftp://sdk.provo.novell.com does not resolve; the HTTP archive paths under www.novell.com/developer/ return 404). summary: registry_packages: 3 official_first_party: 2 newest_first_party_release: '2014-02-12' registry_less_kits: 5 packages: - name: com.novell.ldap:jldap registry: maven official: true language: java url: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/com.novell.ldap/jldap docs: https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/edirectory-developer-documentation/ldap-classes-for-java/ version: '2009-10-07' published: '2013-02-19' note: >- Novell LDAP Classes for Java (JLDAP). The only version on Maven Central; the version string is itself a date, and maven-metadata.xml records lastUpdated 2013-02-26. The NDK page it documents now 301s to the Micro Focus eDirectory developer documentation. Unmaintained for over a decade. verified: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/novell/ldap/jldap/maven-metadata.xml - name: Novell.Directory.Ldap registry: nuget official: true language: csharp url: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Novell.Directory.Ldap docs: https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/edirectory-developer-documentation/ldap-libraries-for-c-sharp/ version: 2.2.1 published: '2014-02-12' note: >- LDAP Libraries for C#. Registry metadata names the author as "Novell Inc." and points projectUrl at https://www.novell.com/developer/ndk/ldap_libraries_for_c_sharp.html, so first-party authorship is unambiguous. Exactly one version has ever been published. This is the newest first-party Novell release on any package registry. verified: https://api.nuget.org/v3/registration5-semver1/novell.directory.ldap/index.json - name: Novell.Directory.Ldap.NETStandard registry: nuget official: false language: csharp url: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Novell.Directory.Ldap.NETStandard repository: https://github.com/dsbenghe/Novell.Directory.Ldap.NETStandard version: 4.0.0 published: '2025-03-02' note: >- Community continuation of the Novell C# LDAP library, maintained by dsbenghe. The registry author field reads "Novell,dsbenghe" because it inherits Novell's copyright, but projectUrl is a third-party GitHub repository and no Novell host references it - recorded as official:false. Listed because it is the only live descendant of a Novell client library, and is the package a current integrator would actually use. registry_less_kits: - name: GroupWise Web Service (SOAP) SDK distribution: archive url: https://www.novell.com/developer/ndk/groupwise/groupwise_web_service_(soap).html version: '2013.01.15' published: '2013-01-15' note: >- Published as novell-gwsoap-devel-2013.01.15.zip. Version and date are read from the filename on the live NDK page. The archive contains the WSDL and schema files for the SOAP surface. The only download link is ftp://sdk.provo.novell.com/ndk/gwsoap/builds/cross_platform/ and that host no longer resolves; four plausible HTTP mirrors under www.novell.com/developer/ all return 404. The contract is therefore documented but not obtainable. - name: DSML for eDirectory (SOAP) distribution: archive url: https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/edirectory-developer-documentation/dsml-for-edirectory-soap/ version: '2006.02.22-1' published: '2006-02-22' note: >- Published as novell-dsml-devel-2006.02.22-1cross_platform in tar.gz / zip / exe / i586.rpm form. Every download link on the page 404s. - name: GroupWise Administration SDK sample code distribution: archive url: https://www.novell.com/documentation/developer/groupwise_sdk/gwsdk_gwadminweb_readme/data/gwsdk_gwadminweb_readme.html version: null published: null note: >- AdminSDK-SampleCode.zip, referenced by the Admin API readme. No version is stated anywhere on the page and no download link is given - the readme says the SDK installs with the GroupWise agent software. Recorded as checked-and-unknown rather than omitted. - name: eDirectory Developer Suite distribution: archive url: https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/edirectory-developer-documentation/ version: null published: null note: >- Bundle of the eDirectory C/Java/C# libraries. The NDK index still links it; the page now 301s to Micro Focus, which does not state a version or date. - name: Novell Developer Suite for Java distribution: archive url: https://www.novell.com/developer/ndk/novell_developer_suite_for_java.html version: null published: null note: >- Listed on the live NDK A-Z index. No version or release date is published on the page. negative_results: - registry: npm query: novell result: >- No first-party package. The closest hits are third-party - groupwise@0.6.0 (2015-05-17), "A simple SOAP client for Novell Groupwise", and lderp-edir@1.2.0, an eDirectory extension for a community LDAP client. - registry: pypi query: novell-ldap, python-novell result: 404 on both. No first-party Python client was ever published. - registry: rubygems query: novell result: No Novell-authored gem; all matches are unrelated Japanese web-novel tooling. - registry: crates.io query: novell result: No Novell-authored crate; all matches are unrelated "novel" string collisions. - registry: packagist query: novell result: No Novell-authored package.