Until now, we have seen many LDAP examples using command-line tools, which are not a very user-friendly way of communicating with the LDAP server. In this chapter, we will first revisit the command-line tools to see whether they can be used in a more ergonomic way. Then we will see some examples of languages offering LDAP support, some of them just native support and some of them extensions in the form of libraries.
For the remainder of the chapter, we turn our attention to the most frequently used programming languages. The discussion focuses on languages available over a broad spectrum of platforms; languages available on only a single platform are not mentioned. As you will see, however, the manner of using an LDAP API ...
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