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B. Varanasi, A. SaccoPractical Spring LDAPhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0002-3_8

8. Object-Directory Mapping

Balaji Varanasi1   and Andres Sacco2
(1)
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
(2)
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 

Enterprise Java developers employ object-oriented (OO) techniques to create modular, complex applications. In the OO paradigm, objects are central to the system and represent entities in the real world. Each object has an identity, state, and behavior. Objects can be related to other objects through inheritance or composition. On the other hand, LDAP directories represent data and relationships in a hierarchical tree structure. This difference ...

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