Practical Spring LDAP: Using Enterprise Java-Based LDAP in Spring Data and Spring Framework 6

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B. Varanasi, A. SaccoPractical Spring LDAPhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0002-3_1

1. Introduction to LDAP

Balaji Varanasi¹   and Andres Sacco²

(1)

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

(2)

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

We all deal with directories daily. We use a telephone directory to look up phone numbers. When visiting a library, we use the library catalog to look up the books we want to read. We use the file system directory with computers to store our files and documents. Simply put, a directory is a repository of information. The information is usually organized so that it can be retrieved easily.

Directories on a network are typically accessed using the ...