Spring 5.0 Projects

Managing LDAP users with Spring Data

One part of our integration is over. The LDAP admin can configure users from the LDAP server; then, they can be authenticated from web applications created with Spring Security. However, we still have to deal with separate systems (Apache DS) to maintain the user information.

How cool would it be if an admin could directly maintain the users from a Spring web application? This is a great idea, because it will not only make the admin job easy, but a user will be able to update their profile information (like the password, first name, last name, and so on) directly in the Spring-based web application. This is quite possible with Spring Boot. We are talking about performing CRUD operations on the LDAP server ...