Description:

Spring LDAP is a Java library for simplifying LDAP operations, based on the
pattern of Spring's JdbcTemplate. The framework relieves the user of common
chores, such as looking up and closing contexts, looping through results,
encoding/decoding values and filters, and more. The LdapTemplate class
encapsulates all the plumbing work involved in traditional LDAP programming,
such as creating a DirContext, looping through NamingEnumerations, handling
exceptions and cleaning up resources. This leaves the programmer to handle the
important stuff - where to find data (DNs and Filters) and what do do with it
(map to and from domain objects, bind, modify, unbind, etc.), in the same way
that JdbcTemplate relieves the programmer of all but the actual SQL and how the
data maps to the domain model. In addition to this, Spring LDAP provides
transaction support, a pooling library, exception translation from
NamingExceptions to a mirrored unchecked Exception hierarchy, as well as
several utilities for working with filters, LDAP paths and Attributes.