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_5

5. Advanced Spring LDAP

Balaji Varanasi¹   and Andres Sacco²

(1)

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

(2)

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

JNDI Object Factories

JNDI provides the notion of object factories, which makes dealing with LDAP information easier. As the name suggests, an object factory transforms directory information into meaningful objects for the application. For example, object factories can have a search operation return object instances like Patron or Employee instead of plain javax.naming.NamingEnumeration.

Figure 5-1 depicts the flow involved when an application ...