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3. Introducing Spring LDAP

Balaji Varanasi¹   and Andres Sacco²

(1)

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

(2)

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Spring LDAP¹ provides simple, clean, and comprehensive support for LDAP programming in Java. This project started on SourceForge in 2006 under the name LdapTemplate to simplify access to LDAP using JNDI. The project later became part of the Spring Framework portfolio and has come a long way. Figure 3-1 depicts the architecture of a Spring LDAP–based application.

An illustration of the Spring L D A P architecture directory. Application is followed ...